People I work with are open to leadership that has a vision, but this vision has to be communicated clearly and persuasively, and always, always with passion.
We communicate with passion and passion persuades.
We entrepreneurs are loners, vagabonds, troublemakers. Success is simply a matter of finding and surrounding ourselves with those open-minded and clever souls who can take our insanity and put it to good use.
You educate people, especially young people, by stirring their passions, so you take every opportunity to grab the imagination of your employees, you get them to feel they are doing something important, that they are not a lone voice, that they are the most powerful and potent people on the planet.
I think that business practices would improve immeasurably if they were guided by “feminine” pinciples, qualities like love, care, and intuition.
We were most creative when our back was against the wall.
Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.
Whatever you do, be different. If you’re different, you will stand out.
There is no scientific answer for success. You can’t define it. You’ve simply got to live it and do it.
If you don’t believe one person can make a difference, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.
I want to define success by redefining it. For me it isn’t that solely mythical definition – glamour, allure, power of wealth, and the privilege from care. Any definition of success should be personal because it’s so transitory. It’s about shaping my own destiny.
The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.
The key to handling problems and conflict within an organization is to keep the channels of communication wide open.
Travel is like a university without walls.
You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message.
The big question is: how do you institutionalize success and still keep that edge of craziness and wildeness?
The word love is never mentioned in big business.
Be special. Be anything but mediocre.
A vision is something you see and others don’t. Some people would say that’s a pocket definition of lunacy. But it also defines entrepreneurial spirit.
You’ve got to be hungry – for ideas, to make things happen and to see your vision made into reality.