We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills.

Daniel Goleman

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Leo Buscaglia

You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they do have accounts, but you know, Russia is not exactly the place with multiple language skills so local networks kind of have an edge.

Yuri Milner

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

T. Boone Pickens

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

Joan Didion

We should've been different breeds. There can only be one lion in a small cage. It's not important if the other lion is sleeping or crouching in the corner. The only important thing is that...it's a lion.

Seyoung Kim

It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote against. Some we quote not at all, offering them our scrupulous avoidance, and so make them part of our white mythology. Other authors we constantly invoke, chanting their names in cerebral rituals of propitiation or ancestor worship.

Ihab Hassan

Different times need different types of leadership.

Park Geun-hye

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Sir Winston Churchill

He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

James Graham

Exaggeration is the inseparable companion of greatness.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)