You can't think your way out of a box; you've got to act.

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!

You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.

A little help is worth a great deal of pity.

I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

To become a better you, you must be positive towards yourself, develop better relationships, embrace the place where you are.

The change will only happen outside once we change within ourselves.

One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it's spawned, is climate change and drought.

I wouldn't call myself a coward, no way. But being buried alive is something I could never handle. The only way you'd see me being buried alive is if I was dead, man.

We should spend as much time in thanking God for his benefits as we do in asking him for them.

A toothache will cost a battle, a drizzle cancel an insurrection.