Dot the i's, cross the t's, answer the phones promptly, send out errorless invoices, and in general never forget that the devil is in the details.

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!

We humans are so tortured by not properly guessing what will make us happy.

The word "education" comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

When life goes, the body becomes weaker

I'm reaching out my hand. I hope you are too. I just want to be in the dark with you.

We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.

Don't do to someone else what you wouldn't want done to you.

Casual obedience and lukewarm commitment weaken faith.

Do what you think is right and apologize later.

There has to be a certain relationship between the life and the writing style, and that is really a problem.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.