The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.

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!

We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant, practiced in acts of despotism and cruelty.

The main thrust of the Social Security reform was to get the benefit structure in line with the realities of the Trust Funds.

Being happy or unhappy - is that really the most important thing? Knowing the truth would be a different kind of happiness - a more satisfying kind, I think, even if it turned out to be a sad kind.

My only requirement for life is that I don't get stuck in a rut.

Here in New England, the character is strong and unshakable.

But, then, Sampras won Wimbledon six times and that automatically puts him among the greatest

If you are love with the perfect, prepare to see it swept away. If you are able to dream of the impossible, it just might happen.

O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like the rest of my race?

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.