The key to getting work done on time is to stop wearing a watch.

People are responsible adults at home. Why do we suddenly transform them into adolescents with no freedom when they reach the workplace?

If we do not let people do things the way they do, we will never know what they are really capable of and they will just follow our boarding school rules.

Once employees feel challenged, invigorated and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organisation.

People have a reservoir of talent worth discovering. They just have to be given the opportunity to discover it in themselves

The key to management is to get rid of the managers.

Every one of us has learned how to send emails on Sunday night. But how many of us know how to go a movie on Monday afternoon. You've unbalanced your life without balancing it with someone else.

Man is by nature restless. When left too long in one place he will inevitably grow bored, unmotivated, and unproductive.

For a company to excel, employees must be reassured that self-interest, not the company's, is their foremost priority. We believe an employee who puts himself first will be motivated to perform.

Human nature demands recognition. Without it, people lose their sense of purpose and become dissatisfied, restless, and unproductive.

There is no contest between the company that buys the grudging compliance of its work force and the company that enjoys the enterprising participation of its employees

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

The conductor must breathe life into the score. It is you and you alone who must expose it to the understanding, reveal the hidden jewel to the sun at the most flattering angles.

I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.

I really care about you and I don't want to anymore because it feels too shitty for me.

A slug is always on its own. It's a lonely insect.

I do quite naughty things now. I do like to be a bit sexy.

The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then unpardonable crime, in Southern eyes, of educating negroes.

In general, being independent is so liberating, you get to create without someone looking over your shoulders.

Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it; your career is over.

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.