Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.

You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.

Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers.

Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.

Social Networking that matters is helping people archive their goals. Doing it reliably and repeatability so that over time people have an interest in helping you achieve your goals.

You are not your resume, you are your work.

There isn't an end point to excellence where you have it and you can stop. Being your best self means keeping on trying.

The profession I have keeps dragging me into drama and taking me away from baking, flowering and gardening.

Whether they're glad or mortified to have said whatever, Paul Fein wasn't going to let such good quotes get away from us.

If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.

I was taught by teachers, and if it's one thing I have it's a basketball mind and I try to pass it on and pay it forward.

Honorable battle sustains a Sacred Band.

We have garlic days, and onion days. You know what they're cooking.

The payroll tax increase was destructive financially, it took what was a close call and made it a bad call.

I have always loved animals since I was very young.

I'm not a crazy, party-going sort of person.