Because nearly all digital libraries are tied to bricks-and-mortar institutions, the funding base tends to be quite localized.

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!

If human beings cannot inhabit the earth, where else could they live?

Overall, becoming a carbon-neutral country would involve changes in our behaviour, but these are modest compared with the changes that will be forced upon us if we do nothing.

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.

The British happened to the rest of the world. Now the world happens to Britain.

When a woman dislikes the man who is courting her, she parries him cleverly, like a willow in the wind.

To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct.

I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.

California is like the Mecca of the film industry. Everyone's seen California.

Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.

Is it the realization that people recently psychoanalyzed tend to be dreadful bores which makes the U.S.A. army reject them for the draft?