Good listeners have a huge advantage. For one, when they engage in conversation, they make people ‘feel’ heard. They ‘feel’ that someone really understands their wants, needs and desires. And for good reason; a good listener does care to understand.
I try to find, celebrate and teach leaders how to build platforms that will inspire others.
I think most people are inherently interested in how their brain works, in what makes them tick.
I have friends who are majorly into the cosplay culture and have urged me to go to a convention for no other reason than to meet others like me.
Anyone can sell product by dropping their prices, but it does not breed loyalty.
Anyone who achieves any kind of success, however you want to define it, sometimes can’t let go of it.
Babe Ruth was not afraid to strike out. And it was this fearlessness that contributed to his remarkable career.
Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything – for better or for worse.
During World War II, the pilot losses were staggering. In some bombing raids, as many as 80% of the planes that left did not return.
Great leaders state out loud what they intend to do and in doing so, they get things done.
Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others.
Any parent who tells their kids that they can’t attend a school play or go to a soccer match because they have to work is kidding themselves. It’s OK to miss a game or two or a performance here and there, but it’s not all right to miss the majority of them.
Leave America and you’ll find that the consumers in many other countries enjoy watching advertising. Not because the products are better, but because the ads are produced to be entertaining. Sometimes they are funny. Sometimes they are dramatic. Sometimes they are just beautiful.
The single best machine to measure trust is a human being. We haven’t figured out a metric that works better than our own sort of, like, ‘There’s something fishy about you.’
Progress and innovation happen when you set unrealistic goals.
We learn most not from all of the things that go right. We learn most when everything goes wrong.
A true friend is someone with whom protocol is no longer necessary.
Self confidence is the ability to exercise restraint in the face of disrespect and still show respect in response.
We don’t do business with companies. We do business with people.
Look down from as high as possible. Look ahead as far as you can see. Then decide what to do.