If you have people who are high-performing working for you, it's so easy to do your job. Otherwise, you can't even agree on the time of the meeting or who will bring the coffee.

To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace.

Integrity means having the courage to do what is right, and what is aligned with your values, no matter the situation.

If you cultivate a relationship in a genuine, thoughtful way, people will be more inclined to want to help you even though they don't have to help you.

Courage means feeling all those hard human emotions - all that uncertainty and anxiety - and getting the job done anyway.

You can't talk your way out of something you behaved your way into. You have to behave your way out of it.

The corporate world has the resources to improve the world. It's where people live and work.

The time to build a network is always before you need one.

Learning to celebrate success is a key component of learning how to win in the market.

The action is in the interaction.

Today it is cheaper to start a business than tomorrow.

Life continues to flow even if you want to stop for a moment.

When failure is hard to take, pain becomes unbearable and you don’t see any way out. Hang on there, its darkest hour that indicates the advent of light.

I feel that nothing important ever happens that is not revealed to me beforehand.

They examined all my organs. Some of them are quite remarkable and others are not so good. A lot of museums are bidding for them.

I had to give him props, but how annoying of him to be a hero when I was trying so hard to dislike him. It was downright selfish.

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

Don't let your dreams escape / The future's ours to shape

I'm spectacularly disorganised. I wrote my latest book in seven different notebooks scattered throughout my house.

Lay on, McDuff, and be damned he who first cries, 'Hold, enough!