The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.

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!

I never feel alone realizing the fact that my life is my only life partner

All that crap about time being a great healer is bullshit. Time heals nothing. Well, acne maybe.

My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.

The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.

Take my last best advice: Try everything twice!

To marry and have children is the ideal life for a woman. What career could ever be as fine? To give the world splendid men and women-isn't that the noblest thing a woman could possibly do?

The evidence for man-made global warming is as final as the evidence of Auschwitz.

For me, everything is cool.

I am no Othello, Othello was a lie.

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.