Only pissed-off people change the world.

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!

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Doesn’t matter if you can dream it or not, all that matters is if you can begin it or not? Take that first step.

It's really, really hard to watch people struggling and not want to fix it.

Hope is a function of struggle.

Teaching and research are not to be confused with training for a profession. Their greatness and their misfortune is that they are a refuge or a mission.

Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.

Holy writing must strive (by all means) for perfection and true holiness, that a door may be opened to him in heaven.

Music, it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there.

The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.