Don't be interesting - be interested.

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.

Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.

True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.

The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.

If you have more than three priorities then you don't have any.

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

Yes please” sounds powerful and concise. It’s a response and a request. It is not about being a good girl

To overcome adverse circumstances, you have to learn to overcome your own hang-ups, values, and idiosyncrasies in order to value other people, cultures, and ideas.

I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me.

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

On a daily basis, you must take more care of your mind than just money, money, money!

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

Mostly you write to find out what you have to say.

Is love supposed to ruin you? It seems to me you shouldn't destroy yourself out of life for purposes of love--or what good is it?

Born a wildlife warrior, die a wildlife warrior.

And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head.