There is an explosion of information happening, yet people demand quick access to relevant content that cuts through the clutter.

Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.

I have zero tolerance for people who don't come completely prepared. I expect contribution, I expect attendance, and I expect directors to take trips and visit the company's programs.

Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else.

Who you are, what your values are, what you stand forthey are your anchor, your north star. You won't find them in a book. You'll find them in your soul.

An important mark of a good leader [is] to know you don’t know it all and never will.

Even under the most difficult circumstances you can have creative flexibility.

There's nothing quite as powerful as people feeling they can have impact and make a difference. When you've got that going for you, I think it's a very powerful way to implement change.

When you have that window of opportunity called a crisis, move as quickly as you can, get as much done as you can. There's a momentum for change that's very compelling.

As much as it's sometimes hard to make choices about where you invest, it's equally hard to make choices about where you don't invest and what you eliminate.

You have to live the mission... love what you do.

I think every writer has a little freak in ‘em.

In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber so long as it receives messages of beauty hope cheer and courage so long are you young.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a TV reality show.

If you can't stand the heat, don't go to Cancun in the summer.

My mom had the breakdown for the family, and I went into therapy for all of us.

There is abundant reason to believe that optimism - big, little, and in between - is useful to a person because positive expectations can be self-fulfilling.

It takes fifteen pounds of wild fish to get you one pound of farm tuna. Not very sustainable. It doesn't taste very good either.

I've also been writing for other artists, producing other artists, doing some country stuff. Those lyrics I tend to leave more universal.

Every day in Pittsburgh five million people travel across bridges that either need to be replaced or undergo major repairs.