There's no religion but sex and music.
Effective team leaders adjust their style to provide what the group can't provide for itself.
Honesty is telling the truth to ourselves and others. Integrity is living that truth.
Vision is a lot more than putting a plaque on the wall. A real vision is lived, not framed.
Most companies spend all their time looking for another management concept and very little time following up the one they have just taught their managers.
Customer service should not be a department, customer service is everyone's job.
As a leader, the most important earthly relationship you can cultivate is your relationship with yourself.
I don't think of myself as a great improver. A lot of times there's long periods of silence when everyone in the recording studio is looking at their watch and waiting for me to say something. And I'm searching desperately in my brain for anything before something dribbles out.
I know most of my records are real good but I know that there are definitely things I would've changed at the end of the day. I work on things forever, and there are things I wish I didn't do, but ultimately I know the records are good. I kind of let go of big expectations, maybe because hopefully that means if I don't have them, that it'll do really well, but you just never know.
What I think is so great about interviews, is when people cite inspirations.
Subsidies for the oil, gas and coal industries are projected to cost taxpayers more than $135 billion in the coming decade. At a time when scientists tell us we need to reduce carbon pollution to prevent catastrophic climate change, it is absurd to provide massive subsidies that pad fossil-fuel companies' already enormous profits.