Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line.

To live fully your well-read life -at any age- it is essential to take your selection of books seriously. When you drift from book to book, you're lulled into thinking that this lack of focus is right and natural - but it's as wrong as can be. Some serendipity in your reading is delightful, but if you wanted to build a house, would you wait for the materials to assemble themselves? - Steve Leveen

Books are health food for your brain and dessert for your soul. Books are one of the few proven sources of mental exercise known to man. Reading is a workout for your mind. If your body needs thirty minutes of exercise a day, so does your thinker.

When you think about Walt [Disney]'s life, I don't know of anybody on Earth over the last hundred years who has touched as many people as he did. He's touched every nation on Earth.

We told Stanley Roberts to go on a water diet, and Lake Superior disappeared.

Steal what works, fix what's broke, fake the rest.

There are many ways to study Walt Disney, but I think learning about Walt as a leader probably has had the biggest impact on me.