The difference between a pebble and a mountain lies in whom you ask to move it.

Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground.

Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.

Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time.

The secret to living a strong life is right in front of you, calling to you every day. It can be found in your emotional reaction to specific moments in your life.

Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.

People leave managers, not companies

In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.

Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.

Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.

The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.

When your womb quickens again, and you bear a living child, then he will return, and not before.

Continents may break up, continents may emerge, but the human race is immortal in its origin and in its growth, and there is nothing to be afraid of, even if the foundations of the earth be moved.

I thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.

Art has always been and is in its very essence the boldest departure from nature. It is the bridge into the spirit world.

I learned how to make jokes because I wanted to give people as much fun as they did, and I guess I did, too.

As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I'd go and play around; very soon, my hobby became a passion.

All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.

My best move is probably my pull up jump shot.

And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value-added wastes.

I'm actually an athiest. That's kind of deep you must admit.