Author: Geoffrey Hale

  • Garden of Love | Rumi

    If you can’t smell the fragrance Don’t come into the garden of Love. If you’re unwilling to undress Don’t enter into the stream of Truth. Stay where you are. Don’t come our way.

  • Everyday Leadership | Drew Dudley

    We have all changed someone’s life — usually without even realizing it. In this funny talk from TEDxToronto, Drew Dudley calls on all of us to celebrate leadership as the everyday act of improving each other’s lives. Drew Dudley believes leadership is not a characteristic reserved for the extraordinary. He works to help people discover…

  • How To Live Before You Die | Steve Jobs

    Stanford University, 2005 Steve Jobs CEO, Apple and Pixar Animation Truth be told, I never graduated from college… Today I want to tell you three stories from my life…

  • Leonard Lauder | Success Advice from Successul People

    Chairman, The Estée Lauder Companies The best advice I ever got came from my mother, Estée Lauder: She believed that if you had something good to say, you should put it in writing. But if you had something bad to say, you should tell the person to his or her face. I learned this lesson…

  • Tony Robbins | Success Advice from Successful People

    Performance coach In 1979, when I was 19, I had all these people giving me conflicting advice. Jim Rohn, a personal-development speaker, said, ‘Tony, think about it this way. If your worst enemy drops sugar in your coffee, what’s going to happen to you? Nothing. But what if your best friend drops strychnine in your…

  • Michael Bloomberg | Success Advice from Successful People

    Mayor of New York City, founder of Bloomberg LP I can’t remember who told me this, but I certainly didn’t grow up knowing it, so I must have gotten this advice at Salomon Brothers in the 1970s. The advice was, first, always ask for the order, and second, when the customer says yes, stop talking.…