Skill at creating, exploiting, and exiting crucial alliances beats ownership of fixed assets

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!

You don't realize it and that is why you hate who you are. You are living as someone else, so you unknowingly destroy that image everyday.

When the love of your life dies, the problem is not that some part of you dies too, which it does, but that some part of you is still alive.

Live your life. It’s yours anyway.Don’t try too hard. It’s okay to lose.

Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long as he hates me I make a difference.

Coffee and cigarettes, that's one of my weaknesses

I'm not a method actor, but I'm affected by the life I share my life with during shooting. It's always a very strange and special period for me.

I'm not heart-broken if I don't have a hit. But I guess a hit would help. It makes the money go up a bit.

It's been seven hours and fifteen days, since you took your love away.

Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.

Because Jesus Christ is a man, He feels what we feel. Because He is God, He can do something about it.