Obviously, you have to know what you need now and what you will soon need, then hire or promote from within to meet those needs.

Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground.

The difference between a pebble and a mountain lies in whom you ask to move it.

Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.

Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time.

The secret to living a strong life is right in front of you, calling to you every day. It can be found in your emotional reaction to specific moments in your life.

Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.

People leave managers, not companies

In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.

Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.

Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.

Maddie: Now it’s just me against the world, and it’s the loneliest feeling ever.

If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen.

We are inside soft, sweet and pure white despair.

Just in case God isn't dead, our astronauts carry sidearms.

All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles.

The essential thing is to bear always in mind that trouble can appear at any time. Be aware.Be ready.Be alert.

Our purpose is to end war and bring resources back to the life-sustaining needs of our community.

To friendship every burden's light.

May Your Swords Stay Sharp!" - Lan Pendragon

Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.