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Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.

Perhaps nothing in all my business has helped me more than faith in my fellow man. From the very first I felt confident that I could trust the great, friendly public. So I told it quite simply what I thought, what I felt, what I was trying to do. And the response was quick, sure, and immediate.

Perhaps my early problems with dyslexia made me more intuitive: when someone sends me a written proposal, rather than dwelling on detailed facts and figures I find that my imagination grasps and expands on what I read.

Perhaps the best place to begin with an integral approach to business is with.. oneself. In the Big Three of self, culture, and world, integral mastery starts with self. How do body and mind and spirit operate in me? How does that necessarily impact my role in the world of business? And how can I become more conscious of these already operating realities in myself and in others?

...perhaps the most distinguishing trait of visionary leaders is that they believe in a goal that benefits not only themselves, but others as well. It is such vision that attracts the psychic energy of other people, and makes them willing to work beyond the call of duty for the organization.

Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.

Personally, I've made myself a very small window of what I enjoy in this business, which is I love being a big part of the storytelling process.

Peter Drucker has pointed out that it is a manager's job to "do things right." It is an executive's job to make sure "the right things" get done. Even the most rigorous eco-efficient business paradigm does not challenge basic practices and methods: a shoe, building, factory, car, or shampoo can remain fundamentally ill-designed even as the materials and processes involved in its manufacture become more "efficient.

Physicians attend to the business of physicians, and workmen handle the tools of workmen. [Lat., Quod medicorum est Promittunt medici, tractant fabrilia fabri.]

"...piling up zeros in your bank account, or cars in your driveway, won't in and of itself make you successful. Rather, true success is based on a constant flow of giving and recieving. In fact, if you look up affluence in the dictionary, you'll see its root is a Latin phrase meaning "to flow with abundance". So in order to be truly affluent, you must always let what you have recieved flow back into the world.

Pixar is seen by a lot of folks as an overnight success, but if you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.

Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression.

Playing it safe and taking no risks is a shortcut to poverty

Please all, and you will please none.

Please be polite. Nothing in life should erode the habit of saying thank you to people or praising them.

Please think about your legacy, because you're writing it every day.

Pluck from under the family all the props which religion and morality have given it, strip it of the glamour, true or false, cast round it by romance, it will still remain a prosaic, indisputable fact, that the whole business of begetting, bearing and rearing children, is the most essential of all the nation's businesses.

Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business.

Politics are receiving a lot of attention because we have nothing else to interest us. No nation in the history of the world was ever sitting as pretty. If we want anything, all we have to do is go and buy it on credit. So that leaves us without any economic problem whatever, except perhaps some day to have to pay for them. But we are certainly not thinking about that this early.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

Politics is just show business for ugly people.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.

Preaching has always been the business of the Asiatics. The Western people are grand in organisation, social institutions, armies, governments, etc.; but when it comes to preaching religion, they cannot come near the Asiatic, whose business it has been all the time, and he knows it, and he does not use too much machinery.

Premature wealth or position cannot be retained because it has not been earned; we get only what we give, and those who try to get without giving always find that the law of compensation is relentlessly bringing about an exact equilibrium.

Premium will increasingly be defined in terms of sustainability and environmental compatibility

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

Preserve the core, and let the rest flux. In their wonderful bestseller Built to Last, authors James Collins and Jerry Porras make a convincing argument that long-lived companies are able to thrive 50 years or more by retaining a very small heart of unchanging values, and then stimulating progress in everything else. At times "everything" includes changing the business the company operates in, migrating, say, from mining to insurance. Outside the core of values, nothing should be exempt from flux. Nothing.

President Coolidge said, 'I don't want the Government to go into business.' Well, if I was Mr. Coolidge I wouldn't worry over that. The Government never has been accused of being a business man.

President Herbert Hoover returned his salary to the government. His idea caught on, and now we're all doing it.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!

Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside.

Privatisation is presented as being the only alternative to an inefficient, corrupt state. In fact, it is not a choice at all... it is a mutually profitable business contract between the private company (preferably foreign) and the ruling elite of the Third World

Privacy isn't dead, although it is fashionable for digerati to say so.

Profit has to be a means to other ends rather than an end in itself.

Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.

Profits are part of the mechanism by which society decides what it wants to see produced.

Profits are the driving force of the market economy. The greater the profits, the better the needs of the consumers are supplied... He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.

Production is not something physical, material, and external; it is a spiritual and intellectual phenomenon.

Profit is not the proper end and aim of management - it is what makes all of the proper ends and aims possible

Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins. At one time they may be carbuncle stones, then coals, then diamonds, then flint stones, then morning dew, then tears.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Progress is often equal to the difference between mind and mindset.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

Progressive companies regard climate change as an opportunity rather than a threat

Prosperity this Winter is going to be enjoyed by everybody that is fortunate enough to get into the poor farm.