The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.

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!

In a bull market, everyone becomes an expert! In a bear market, everyone becomes wise!

Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin.

The worst evil is not to commit crimes, but to fail to do the good one might have done.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

The superstition in which we grew up, Though we may recognize it, does not lose Its power over us.-Not all are free Who make mock of their chains.

Who owns the NY Post? 20th Century Fox. Talk about vertical integration.

I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out

The great mystery of life is the length of it.

I think white artists have a responsibility to be not only naming white supremacy, but to be using their power and privilege to support artists of color.

Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!