Make another list of things done for you that you loved. Do them for others, always.

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers.

Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral.

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.

Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.

It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior required who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.

Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don't do them to others, ever.

Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality.

What will become compellingly important is absolute clarity of shared purpose and set of principles of conduct sort of institutional genetic code that every member of the organization understands in a common way, and with deep conviction.

Make another list of things done for you that you loved. Do them for others, always.

If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts.

An illustration I use to get people to understand it is this: I'll ask major corporate audiences: Why don't you just take all your traditional beliefs about organizations, and apply them to the neurons in your brain?

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.

Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

As I like to say, the entire collective memory of the species - that means all known and recorded information - is going to be just a few keystrokes away in a matter of years.

The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.

Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference.

Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.

If you go back to the first single-cell form of life, it clearly possessed the capacity to receive, to utilize, to store, to transform, and to transmit information.

Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now any microchip device can be in use around the world in weeks.

Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months.

The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.

It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.

Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture.

An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates', then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

Community is composed of that which we dont attempt to measure for which we keep no record and ask no recompense. Most are things we cannot measure no matter how hard we try.

Making good judgments when one has complete data facts and knowledge is not leadership its bookkeeping.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

Although, you know it's been really nice to wear the Olympic kit, I'm looking forward to wearing non-sports, feminine clothes.

My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck.

My main camera is a Nikon D3. I use a French camera from the 1800s for wet plate photography, I use a Hasselblad sometimes. But to me the camera really doesn't matter that much. I don't have a preference for film or digital.

I was really creative. I started to dance very young. I loved to dance. I begged my mother to put me into dance classes, and finally, in third grade, she did. Tap and jazz, but not ballet.

You know, you hear people talk about soul mates? That one person that you see, and that's it for you? Well, TOMS is the business equivalent of a soul mate for me.

Conversion brings a drive to learn.

Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists.

You have to win every battle. Every small metre counts, and you have to win your duels. Then you will see you will win the game.

If one suffers we all suffer. Togetherness is strength. Courage.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

A man who knows that he is saved by believing in Christ does not when he is baptized lift his baptism into a saving ordinance. In fact he is the very best protester against that mistake because he holds that he has no right to be baptized until he is saved.

I've had some tremendous adventures, good and bad. It's part of the novel, and a novel isn't interesting if it doesn't have some good and bad. And you don't know what good is if bad hasn't been a part of your life.

If you're not keen on crowds, it might be best to give Edinburgh a miss during festival time when it can get extremely busy.

My grandma's into music. My mom is a singer. Even my sister is a much better singer than I am. So you could say music runs in the family.

It didnt matter how big our house was it mattered that there was love in it.

'RoboCop' was maybe the best summer of my entire life.