A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.
Communication is the key for any global business.
If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.
I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.
You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message. What I have learned is that people become motivated when you guide them to the source of their own power and when you make heroes out of employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.
If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.
I can't be paralyzed anymore by the critics. My new mantra is, if you're not in the arena getting your ass kicked on occasion, then I'm not interested in your feedback. You don't get to sit in the cheat seat and criticize my appearance or my work with mean-spiritedness if you're also not in the arena.
A surgeon might want to be the best surgeon in Manhattan, but out on Long Island on the weekend, not care at all how he is on the tennis courts or on the Ping-Pong table. Even turning your competitiveness off when it's appropriate, when other people are not being competitive, to recognize that social circumstance and, you know, cool it. That's a crucial competitive skill.
Surrender is a state of living in the flow, trusting what is, and being open to serendipity and surprises.
The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others and no one thinks about reforming himself.