The purpose of work is not to make money. The purpose of work is to make the workers, whether working stiffs or top executives, feel good about life.

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

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Remember how we put stickers with your name on your pocessions that could be stolen.We didn't put a sticker on your innocence so don't lose it!

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.

My mom was a free spirit, and she brought me up to be a free spirit.

Spiritual growth-looking inward-is replacing the pursuit of external power-reaching outward to manipulate and control-as the cure for the insecurity at the core of human experience.

Look not for refuge to anyone beside yourself. Heed fast to the truth as a lamp.

Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.

So, for instance, let me make this clear: You know I signed a statement. I will not raise taxes on anybody. I don't want to raise taxes on the American people.

The fact that "Léon: The Professional" doesn't have every award in the world is a sign that it is underrated. I'm not even ashamed to say that I cried during every scene.

I have noticed that these days, people don't want to take their time to succeed.