Everyone is passionate about something. It's your job to find out what it is.

Money is not the sole or most powerful motivation for many people. A higher and tougher test is to look back and see how you've made the world a better place.

You have to sit by the side of a river a very long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth.

The mark of a good conversationalist is not that you can talk a lot. The mark is that you can get others to talk a lot. Thus, good schmoozer's are good listeners, not good talkers.

Remember that nobodies are the new somebodies.

Great leaders are paradoxical. They catalyze, rather control, the work of their teams. They have an overarching vision for the team but are not autocratic in the realization of this vision. Their eyes are open to whatever results occur-not just planned goals, because serendipity is a great innovator.

You have to start with the basic premise that you need to know what your competition is doing.