If the other guy is getting better, then you'd better be getting better faster than the other guy is getting better... or you're getting worse.

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!

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

No excuses will lead to no regrets which will give you no limits to your potential.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque.

The notion that the maternal wish and the activity of mothering are instinctive or biologically predestined is baloney.

Everyone of us plays 'tapes' from our parents until we die. That's why it's so important to talk good values to your child

We all have common emotions. And, and our experiences may not be all common but the emotions sure are.

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.

I'm very fortunate to be doing the thing I do best, which is play guitar. There aren't many other things I could do.

I didn't talk to anybody and say, "I'm going to do a speech, do you go some ideas?" This is something I did on my own because I care very deeply about the country.