The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

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!

How many crimes are permitted simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.

Never reject an idea, dream or goal because it will be hard work. Success rarely comes without it.

You are so much better off on your own than with the wrong person.

The difference between destruction of the immune system and stimulation of the immune system is an interpretation.

Somewhere, someone isn’t impressed by your looks. Not all men jump through the hoops of your fire. You’re unbelievably boring to more people than you’ll ever know.

Leaders are readers, and readers are leaders.

When I write a book, I hope to be beyond mortal by the time I'm finished.

Majestic mighty Wealth is the holiest of our gods.

I would do those 2 years over and over again for the rest of my life

The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone.