“Nice guys may appear to finish last, but usually they are running a different race.”

Take a minute: look at your goals, look at your performance, see if your behavior matches your goals.

As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there.

Business is like tennis. Those who serve well win.

You have the power to help people become winners.

Take what you do seriously, but yourself lightly.

Knowing where you are going is the first step to getting there.

Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven’t learned a thing until you take action and use it.

Everyday do something in relation to everything that’s important to you.

We are not just our behavior. We are the person managing our behavior.

Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals of the organization. When people see that connection, they get a lot of energy out of work. They feel the importance, dignity, and meaning in their job.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

People don’t mind being challenged to do better if they know the request is coming from a caring heart.

Effective team leaders adjust their style to provide what the group can’t provide for itself.

Real communication happens when people feel safe.

Purpose can never be about achievement; it is much bigger.

The best way to develop responsibility in people is to give them responsibility.

Competitive strategy is about being different. It means deliberately choosing a different set of activities to deliver a unique mix of value.

You have to allow your mind to create and then if you want to censor something and bring it down or point it in a different direction, then you can do it.

I already enjoy cooking. I like different flavors and putting different things together and really like taking normal recipes to a higher level.

Greetings, I am pleased to see that we are different. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us.

In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.

Quantum physics tells us that nothing that is observed is unaffected by the observer. That statement, from science, holds an enormous and powerful insight. It means that everyone sees a different truth because everyone is creating what they see.

Working on a film, the setup for an action sequence takes a long time, and we need to shoot the scene many times to get different angles.

Healing is a different type of pain. It’s the pain of becoming aware of the power of one’s strength and weakness, of one’s capacity to love or do damage to oneself and to others, and of how the most challenging person to control in life is ultimately yourself.