I bought my own home in 2004. It's a sanctuary for my family and a place of peace and calm. It's key for anyone committed to leadership and success to avoid the noise and focus on their best opportunities.

Being productive at your craft is important. Being productive in your devotion to grow as a human is essential.

If you've tried everything possible to get an outcome, and it just hasn't worked out as planned, stop trying so hard. Relax. Maybe the timing's not right. Maybe it wasn't in your best interests. Maybe while one door seems to be closing, another is opening.

The world needs many more dreamers. Unreasonable souls who fight the urge to be ordinary.

Leaders listen. Staggeringly well.

Whether you lead a nation, an enterprise, a community, or a family, we are all in the communication business.

Most of the things we are afraid will happen never do. Something to think about.

If we are paying attention to our lives, we'll recognise those defining moments. The challenge for so many of us is that we are so deep into daily distractions and 'being busy, busy' that we miss out on those moments and opportunities that - if jumped on - would get our careers and personal lives to a whole new level of wow.

I try to work out daily in the morning hours. This drives up energy levels dramatically. You'll feel more inspired. And you'll need less sleep.

Delegate to others who have strengths where you don't. But sometimes, you just need to be the one to drive the change when everyone else is waiting for someone else to take the first step. To me, that's courage in action.

Cynicism stems from disappointment. Cynical and faithless people were not always like that. They were filled with possibilities and hope as kids. But they tried and perhaps failed.

I'm pretty conservative. I believe that buying good quality is a good investment. I buy fewer things but of better quality.

As for whether I am a 'new age guru', I am not at all. I help companies build employees who lead without a title and become high performers.

If you really want to be world class - to be the best you can be - it comes down to preparation and practice.

You need to give to get. Give support to get it. Give praise to receive it. Give your best to get your wishes. Give more love to be beloved. Give to get.

Stay true to your vision/dream. There's something to be said for just staying at what you are trying to achieve well past the point everyone else gives up.

Don't always be so reasonable and practical and sensible that you refuse to seize glorious opportunities when they show up and push the envelope as to what's possible for you.

Everyone is influencing the people around them one way or another.

Stay true to your values.

While their competition is asleep, world-class leaders are up - and they're not watching the news or reading the paper. They are thinking, planning and practicing.

I wish for a world that gets that your 'I Can' is exponentially more important than your IQ.

Victims recite problems. Leaders develop solutions. That might seem like common sense, but common sense is rarely common practice.

Leadership is a mindset that shifts from being a victim to creating results. Any one of us can demonstrate leadership in our work and within our lives.

As we produce work that becomes pure poetry, we impact and influence our teammates, we wow our suppliers, we inspire customers and strangers. And we lead our industry.

We live in a world where many of us have a lot of friends on Facebook but yet we have lost human connection.

The best do sweat the small stuff. They get the seemingly insignificant details right. They have the discipline to shine at the baby things which they get gives birth to spectacular giant things.

I adore India, its culture, and all the beauty of the nation. My father is from Jammu, and he's had a profound influence on my mindset and way of being.

I love great quotes.

You can inspire the world. Or you can be liked by all. You don't get to do both.

By seizing the opportunities that disruption presents and leveraging hard times into greater success through outworking/outinnovating/outthinking and outworking everyone around you, this just might be the richest time of your life so far.

I believe it's strikingly important to remember that when you know better, you can do better. With higher levels of awareness, you can make smarter choices. And the more clarity you get as to who you want to become, the quicker you can start making the choices need to get you there.

Three hours of focused time on the projects that will really add value and uplift your career are so much better than 10 hours where you are constantly being interrupted and taken off your focus.

True, foolish risks can lead to difficult consequences. But having said that, don't be so scared of failure and disappointment that you fail to dream.

Showing leadership doesn't mean every employee will run the organization; that would lead to chaos. Businesses do need someone to set the vision and then lead the team to it.

Unsuccessful people are the ones who are impressed by celebrity, by people's names and titles.

I'd done all the things I thought a person had to do in order to be successful and fulfilled, like getting a great education and becoming a lawyer, and yet there was zero spark in my life. But there was no light-bulb moment. It was gradual. In the early 1990s, I decided to experiment and try some new ways of living.

The fears you do not face become your walls. Most people in business, and in their personal lives, design everything so they can avoid doing what makes them feel uncomfortable. Yet any good business person knows we are not only paid to work, but also we are paid to be scared.

The most important things in life have nothing to do with things.

Leaders understand that the real fight is the fight against time. There's so much to achieve in such less time.

People want to be a part of an organization that lets them be fully alive and bring their gifts to work. People really do want to be engaged and feel proud of their contribution.

There is a cure for anti-aging that actually works - it's called lifelong learning.

The more people you help and the more value you create, the more your business will fly - and the quicker you'll win.

We are influenced by the ideas we hear and the people we meet.

I wish for a world where people understand that life is short. So today's the time to do big things.

We are built to love. Have the bravery to open the heart you have contracted from life's disappointments. This is how the heroes roll.

Just imagine how fast, innovative and excellent your business will be once every single teammate - from the janitor to the executive - begins to see themselves as the CEO of their own area of responsibility.

Success is seductive. It can make one complacent and inefficient and stale.

You can stay angry at someone who hurt you. Or you can get busy doing your visions and changing our world. But you don't get to do both.

I believe we can accelerate our acumen, performance and success by leveraging our associations and spending time with people better than us.

No one wants to fail. So most of us don't even try. Sad. We don't even take that first step to improve our health or to deepen our working relationships or to realize a dream.