The company's most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand - innovation from everyone.

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!

Deep down, nature is inherently peaceful, calm and beautiful. The universe as a whole is perfect. The chaos is on the surface.

But why always think the worst of people? What would she be doing to herself if she adopted that attitude to life? It was better to think the best and be wrong than to think the worst and be wrong.

Fear of death is worse than dying.

It is only by loving a thing that you can make it yours.

I'm not going to be in a relationship that I don't fully trust.

Watching Bo Jackson, seeing his size, his speed, a lot of his abilities, really drove me.

Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with 'Stairway to Heaven.'

If you knew me yesterday, please do not think that it is the same person that you are meeting today.

My mother's five foot two and, I'll be honest with you, she's the only person I'm scared of.