Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

I never use notes, they interfere with me.

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.

Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.

The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

Too many leaders act as if the sheep... their people... are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.

I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I've had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works.

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

He isnt a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities

Customer service is not a department its everyones job.

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.

Dont quack like a duck soar like an eagle.

Start your day with good intentions and set yourself up for a good attitude. Its not what happens to you that matters but how you respond.

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

All good performance starts with clear goals.

The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always striving. Purpose is something bigger. It is the picture you have of yourself-the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.

When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.

If entertainment years were dog years, man, I'd be like Gandhi. I'd be, like, 250 years old.

Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.

Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.

The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman.

Truth waits to be found. It searches for no one.

Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.

Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home.

You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey... Leave depart if not physically then mentally. Go your own way quietly undramatically and venture toward Trueness at last.

The first step to wisdom is to avoid the common fallacy which considers everything profound that is obscure.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality, but we all benefit from their creative effort.

Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap.

Everything I hated about L.A. I'm beginning to crave. L.A. is a place where you live behind a gate, you get in a car, your interaction with the public is minimal. I used to hate that.

I'm doing a lot more handmade gifts. When I go to a party, I cook whatever it is I need to bring instead of just grabbing a bottle of wine.

Good people can do bad things make bad decisions. It doesnt make them bad people.

The word 'Antichrist', to me, is the collective disbelief in god.

I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

I was playing the piano when I was three, writing songs when I was ten. I had a lot of experience before I got to college. I knew I wanted to be a singer, so anyone who met me, I didn't let too much time pass before I showed my talent.

I was brought up in a flat in North London - virtually the last building in London, because north of us was countryside all the way to the coast, and south of us was non-stop London for 20 miles.

'The Duino Elegies' are notoriously cryptic, and part of the reason why I have always loved them is because they invite multiple readings over the course of a lifetime.

There's a simple solution to our traffic problems. We'll have business build the roads, and government build the cars.

I can't even remember when the Seventies was.

If you can define what God is, I can tell you whether I believe in it.