Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.

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!

My Bible is my dockingstation.

Why do we consider that just because people have more money, they do not deserve it? It is totally wrong. They deserve everything they have earned.

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

Perhaps what you call conventionality, I call decency.

How would you like to live with somebody who was everlastingly grieving your heart by his conduct?

Live your life like you're the hero in your movie and right now.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

Challenging the status quo takes commitment, courage, imagination, and, above all, dedication to learning.

Glory is the child of peril.

Nobody can tell me that no changes are necessary in Washington.