You can't be normal and expect abnormal returns.

Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.

Successful organizations understand the importance of implementation, not just strategy, and, moreover, recognize the crucial role of their people in this process.

Knowledge is only useful if you do something with it.

You are more likely to acquire power by narrowing your focus and applying your energies, like the sun's rays, to a limited range of activities in a small number of domains.

Point at solutions instead of at each other.

The best path to power combines two things: 1) a path that not many are taking and 2) something that you are capable and comfortable with doing.

Most organisations say they want creativity, but really they do not.

My overall recommendation: for decades corporate policy manuals and HR departments have told people they are responsible for their own careers. It's about time people really heeded those warnings.

We give up and don't try. We don't take sufficient chances or risks. We aren't resilient in the face of failure. We follow the "rules" too much and don't push the envelope.

Being memorable equals getting picked.

What moves men of genius, or rather, what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is not enough.

I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.

Playing the game is far more satisfying than reading the rules.

There is absolutely nothing humorous at the Masters. Here, small dogs do not bark and babies do not cry.

Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.

I love eye makeup. I really like doing a cat eye, playing with liquid liners and different colors of liners, like emerald and deep blues, combining them with black.

Disbelief is catching. It rubs off on people.

Mistakes are doorways to discovery.

God's job ain't to make our lives easier, it's to make us better souls by the lessons He gives us.

The most important actions are never comfortable.