Want to accomplish something, any-damn-thing? Sharpen your political skills!

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!

Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.

I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.

You do your best [ on auditions] and sometimes you win 'em over and sometimes you don't.

The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can't touch - like England 's grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.

Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, "Que pasa, baby?

You cannot lead people you do not influence.

Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.

We all know them — the unstructured person whose every action seems aimless and the totally organized person whose every action defeats some purpose.

Are we even now? Or do you want to rape my body as much as you’ve raped my soul? (Acheron)

I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction writers. William Gibson is one of my favorite writers.