Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.

Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.

True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.

The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.

If you have more than three priorities then you don't have any.

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

They wore their strange beauty like war paint.

This is the trouble with origin hunting. There are so many origins.

We needs must love the highest when we see it.

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.

Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.

Everyone queue up!' Malfoy roared to the crowd. 'Harry Potter's giving out signed photos!

I was very happy and honored to create the Professor Garfield Foundation with Ball State to make reading fun.

Imagination is the beginning of reality.

Maybe what I do isn't going to be acknowledged by people, but that's me. It's my nature to do things that are weirder and less understood and that was a path I needed to take

I went to college to study hospitality. I quickly got out of that and realized that what I liked to do was write.