Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.

Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.

Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it...only business people think it isn't necessary to train.

The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.

Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, 'Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.' Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!

To all the living there is hope for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Even if one doesn't smoke pot, one has to see the benefits of decriminalizing it.

No matter what the situation is...close your eyes and think of all the things you could be grateful for in your life right now.

We manipulate nature as if we were stuffing an Alsatian goose. We create new forms of energy; we make new elements; we kill crops; we wash brains. I can hear them in the dark sharpening their lasers.

I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge.

Make education a continuing, never-ending process.

Stop making sense. Logic is predictable. Think differently.

Sin hath broke the world's sweet peace--unstrung Th' harmonious chords to which the angels sung.

The worst bankruptcy in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.

Every American should have above average income, and my Administration is going to see they get it.