We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.

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!

A corner is important. It provides privacy and an anchor and lets you exist independently of the room.

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

As the possessor of complete knowledge, God is not mistaken about people's experiences as people are mistaken about each others' experiences.

I'm half Jewish, half Scottish. It's hard for me to buy anything.

The truth is that the poems are ecstatic.

It may be that this autobiography [Aimee Semple McPherson's] is set down in sincerity, frankness, and simple effort. It may be, too, that the Statue of Liberty is situated in Lake Ontario.

Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like

I think what good television does well is that it shows characters evolving.

I am a little old fashioned. I believe that in a relationship a man and a woman are never equal.

L'homme qui a un peu use ses e motions est plus presse de plaire que d'aimer. The person who has used his emotions even a little is more anxious to please than to love.