The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it's not fun, you're wasting your life.

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!

Everything you’re telling me was just a story, and now it’s real.

I now inhabit a life I don't deserve, but we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon

Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.

Mostly I'm proud to be an African-American woman, but I'm glad I have a universal look as well.

It's not where you start or where you finish. It is the distance between the two.

If you do everything in your power to avoid writing and still can't, then you must be a writer.

Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.

Hope you're pleased with the crumbs she throws you.

I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.

The wonders of nature are endless.