The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.

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!

Where they come in the spirit of perpetual giving - the house that love built.

I was not born with English in my pocket.

We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act, but a habit

Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.

Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.

I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.

People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death.

I never know if the person I'm shaking hands with is coming to kill me. That's something you have to live with when you cross the lines.

All of which raises another question: If Obamacare is so great, why do so many people want to get out from under it?

Try to establish the value of a company.