Once an individual is given a taste of the gratification that comes from triumph, and the tools to bring it about, they will spend a lifetime in its ongoing pursuit.

Leadership means realizing potential-in yourself and in the people you lead.... The leader and followers cocreate their identities and performance.

What great executives do is not magic. Their performance is made possible by specific, identifiable skills.

Often people freeze under severe pressure, but that says nothing about their ultimate capability- only their level of preparation.

The principles that make someone a master in the chief executive role deal with whether or not they can thrive in an environment of ongoing duress, and teach others how to do so.

Knowledge is the accumulation of information whereas intelligence is one's ability to process information to render good decisions.

The central premise of great leadership is recognizes that fundamental fact, that not of us are fixed entities, and taking responsibility for making sure that we bring out our people's best selves.

The intelligence gap is essentially a shortage of executives with superior thinking skills who are needed by every business, as compared with the number of decision-making positions available.

Sometimes you will do good and not get an acknowledgement for it. Don't let that dishearten you, the world is a better place with your good deeds.

The sad thing is, I never wanted to be Princess Leia - I always wanted to be Han Solo!

We call a thing big or little with reference to what it is wont to be, as we speak of a small elephant or a big rat.

You don't have to be musician to listen to music, and you don't have to be a filmmaker to go to the cinema, but somehow when we think of science, we think of it only as an academic discipline.

At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways that almost any other art form in popular culture struggles to compete with.

I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person Ive worked with has helped me.

Society presses upon us all the time. The progress of the last half century is the progress of the frog out of his well.

Rose only hangs out with guys and psychopaths," said Mia. "Well," he said cheerfully, "since I'm both a psychopath and a guy, that would explain why we're such good friends.

Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.

If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill.