The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

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!

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees...

Even love becomes pain if destiny has some other designs.

Do for the others more than you do for yourself

Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.

In the killing of animals there is cruelty, rage, and the accustoming of oneself to the bad habit of shedding innocent blood.

I had Elvis' number in my book and I never called it.

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.

In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness.

Solitude is an essential quality of wilderness.