The hyperfast-moving, wired-up, reengineered, quality-obsessed organization will succeed or fail on the strength of the trust that its managers place in the folks working on the front line.

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!

Hatred doesn’t need company. It stews in its own loneliness and can grow still. Love needs companions. Love alone is daunted. Love together is unbound and unrestricted.

Time stood still so she learnt to alter her focus.

Your money myth affects your gain and luck.In economics, illusion of money affects wealth.

You can't order me away, you pissant human--" "I just did." Kas swept past him...

War so conspicuously benefits rich men and kills the poor ones.

Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.

Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.

I thought I'd be back in baseball, but I didn't know when.

Blue grass was the outgrowth of Irish music. As a matter of fact a lot the tunes, a lot of the melodies and the jigs... have different names but are actually the same tunes.

People ask the question, 'If you're offered VP, would you take it?' No, I won't take it.