You cannot learn very much about excellence from studying failure.

Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground.

The difference between a pebble and a mountain lies in whom you ask to move it.

Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.

Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time.

The secret to living a strong life is right in front of you, calling to you every day. It can be found in your emotional reaction to specific moments in your life.

Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.

People leave managers, not companies

In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.

Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.

Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.

The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.

We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy.

Keeping players happy is not easy and I think anyone with a big squad will tell you that.

Common integration is only the memory of differentiation.

It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.

Anger is brief madness

A man with a credit card is in hock to his own image of himself.

It is not my fault that my parents own the world's largest collection of black Santas.

Just because you have a group of scientists who stood up and said here is the fact. Galileo got outvoted for a spell.