A sincere thanks to the hundreds of people who were kind enough to give me interviews. And a special thanks to the journalists, writers, and authors whose own interviews and words add immeasurably to the research. (Page numbers only apply to paper version of the book)

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Hank Aaron
212 Original source of quote not found.

John Abele
79, 80 Richard St. John

Dan Aykroyd
24 Richard St. John

Sandra Ainsley
127, 207 Richard St. John

Karl Albrecht
150 Karl Albrecht, Service Within: Solving the Middle Management Leadership Crisis (Irwin Professional Publishing), ISBN: 1556233531

Muhammad Ali
200 Original source of quote not found.

Robert Altman
119 Roger Ebert, “No one else would dare make this film,” special to National Post, December 21, 2001

Adrian Anantawan
86, 207 Richard St. John

Chris Anderson
75, 78 Richard St. John

Lance Armstrong
134 Lance Armstrong, It’s Not About the Bike (copywright © 2000 by Lance Armstrong), p. 49. Used by permission of G.P. Putnam’s Sons, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 137 ibid., pp. 221-222 140 ibid., p. 21 180 ibid., p. 50 191 ibid., p. 184 135 CBC Radio news report, August 5, 2001

Linda Armstrong
197-198 Lance Armstrong, It’s Not About the Bike (copywright © 2000 by Lance Armstrong), p. 191. Used by permission of G.P. Putnam’s Sons, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

Neil Armstrong
196 Original source of the quote not found.

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John Bach
128 Jim O’Donnell, “The Stuff of an NBA Legend,” Chicago Sun-Times, January 13, 1999

Meredith Bagby
68, 79, 129 Richard St. John

Janet Baker
45, 208 Richard St. John

David Baldacci
176 David Baldacci, “An overnight success, me?” New Statesman, May 10, 1999

Jim Balsillie
64 Sean Silverstone, editor, “Research In Motion’s Jim Balsillie’s Wild Ride on a BlackBerry,” HBS Working Knowledge, special to MarketingProfs.com

Roger Bannister
95 Runner’s World

Bill Bartmann
97-99 Adrienne Sanders, edited by Katarzyna Moreno, “On My Mind: Success Secrets of the Successful”, Forbes Magazine, Nov 2, 1998. Reprinted by Permission of Forbes Magazine © 2006 Forbes Inc.

Diane Bean
38, 82, 88, 200 Richard St. John

Warren Beatty
38 Tom Hanks speaking about Warren Beatty, “Golden Globe Awards,” CTV, January 15, 2007

Arthur Benjamin
38, 47-48, 55, 77, 151 Richard St. John

Janine Benyus
78 Richard St. John

Yogi Berra
110 Original source of the quote not found.

Jeff Bezos
42 Richard St. John

Keith Black
22 On stage, TED, 2000

Adam Bly
57 Richard St. John

Jon Bon Jovi
20 “Passion is the key, Bon Jovi tells Oxford students,” National Post, Associated Press, June 19, 2001

Liona Boyd
136 Jane Haughton, “Conversations,” CFRB Radio, November 11, 2001

Ken Bradshaw
88 Courtesy of Nature, http://www.pbs.org/nature, a production of Thirteen/WNET New York

Richard Branson
74 Richard St. John 87, 99 Cal Fussman “What I’ve Learned: Richard Branson,” Esquire, a Hearst Publication, volume 137, issue 1, January 1, 2002” 87 Chris Anderson interview with Richard Branson, TED Conference, March 10, 2007

Craig Breedlove
198 Original source of the quote not found.

Sergey Brin
184 Richard St. John

Martin Brodeur
48 www.harryrosen.com

Deana Brown
199 Richard St. John

Robin Budd
48, 83, 90, 129-130, 132, 169, 182 Richard St. John

Michael Budman
42 Richard St. John

Warren Buffett
40 “Eye,” Women’s Wear Daily, October 10, 1985, p. 10 63 The Wall Street Journal, September 30, 1987, p.17 68 L. J. Davis, “Buffett Takes Stock,” The New York Times Magazine, April 1, 1990

Paul Bunt
130, 166 Richard St. John

James Burke
30, 106, 173 Richard St. John

Philip Burke
120 Richard St. John

Charles H. Burr
153 Original source of the quote not found.

Gary Burton
56, 82, 140, 162 Richard St. John

Edward Burtynsky
98 Richard St. John

Lise Buyer
29, 109, 188 Richard St. John

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John Caldwell
69, 160 Richard St. John

James Cameron
87, 96 Academy of Achievement – www.achievement.org

Russell Campbell
23, 80, 163, 184 Richard St. John

Ronda Carnegie
150 Richard St. John

Dr. Jean Carruthers
112 Shelagh Rogers, “Sounds Like Canada”, CBC Radio, May 14, 2002

David Carson
30, 45, 178 Richard St. John

Percy Cerutty
100 Original source of the quote not found.

Ray Charles
93 Quincy Jones, Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones, (USA: Doubleday, 2001), p. 55

Jay Chiat
37, 44, 177, 202 Richard St. John

Julia Child
137 Mike Sager, “What I’ve Learned: Julia Child,” Esquire, a Hearst Publication, June 1, 2000

Winston Churchill
179-180, 199 Original source of the quote not found.

Peter Cochrane
195 Richard St. John

Bruce Cockburn
130, 182 Richard St. John

Paul Coffey
130 Original source of the quote not found.

Ben Cohen
7, 142, 161, 206 Richard St. John

David Cohen
43, 134 Richard St. John

Naida Cole
207-208 Richard St. John

Ornette Coleman
186 Original source of the quote not found.

Joan Collins
185-186 Original source of the quote not found.

Sherry Cooper
36 Jacqueline Thorpe, “Jazzing up the ‘dismal science’,” Financial Post, May 6, 2002

Ian Craig
40, 133-134, 152, 163 Richard St. John

Russell Crowe
17, 41, 134 Richard St. John

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Ken Danby
47, 92, 160 Richard St. John

Elli Davis
20, 26, 74, 75, 121, 153, 165, 184, 199, 208 Richard St. John

Steve Davis
174 Richard St. John

Wade Davis
25-26, 41-42 Richard St. John

Sky Dayton
107, 115, 178 Richard St. John

Robert H. Dennard
113, 128 Jill Rosenfeld “Here’s An Idea!”, Fast Company, issue 33, p. 97

Daniel Dennett
186 Richard St. John

Jack Diamond
39, 169 Richard St. John

Charles Dickens
11 Original source of the quote not found.

Thomas Dolby
62 Richard St. John

Douglas Dorner
88, 105, 133, 135, 158, 162, 175 Richard St. John

Peter Drucker
74, 185 Nortel Networks Management Conference, October 2000

William Durant
207 Original source of the quote not found.

Gerald Durnell
162 Richard St. John

James Dyson
209 Richard St. John

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Thomas Edison
39, 45-46, 93 Original source of the quote not found. 128 http://www. worldofquotes.com/topic/Science-and-Technology/1/

Brad Edwards
100 Richard St. John

James Ehnes
97 “Bill Richardson, “Richardson’s Roundup”, CBC Radio, May 1, 2002” 120, 152, 183, 210 Original source of the quote not found.

Albert Einstein
120, 116, 183, 210 Original source of the quote not found.

Michael Eisner
103-104 Tri-State Camping Conference, American Camp Association, 2001 119, 210 Academy of Achievement – www.achievement.org

Wallace Eley
74, 106 Richard St. John

Ralph Waldo Emerson
154 Original source of the quote not found.

Eve Ensler
38, 92, 136, 138, 147, 187 Richard St. John

Kevin Eubank
185 Richard St. John

Linda Evangelista
99 Many sources.

Chris Evert
66 Criswell Freeman, The Book of Florida Wisdom, Walnut Grove Press (March 1, 1996)

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David Fairchild
181 Criswell Freeman, The Book of Florida Wisdom, Walnut Grove Press (March 1, 1996)

Ralph Famiglietta
76 Richard St. John

Jerry Della Femina
104, 118 Hugh Delehanty, editor-in-chief, Modern Maturity, March-April 2000

Bob Ferchat
37, 79, 100, 122, 182, 206 Richard St. John

Emperor Ferdinand
187 Many sources.

Ruth Fertel
96 Adrienne Sanders, edited by Katarzyna Moreno, “On My Mind: Success Secrets of the Successful”, Forbes Magazine, Nov 2, 1998. Reprinted by Permission of Forbes Magazine © 2006 Forbes Inc.”

Richard Feynman
76 Richard Feynman, as told to Ralph Leighton, “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”: Adventures of a Curious Character (copyright © 1985 by Richard P. Feyman and Ralph Leighton), p. 31. Used by permission of W.W. Norton & Company Inc. 110 ibid., pp.173-174

Debbi Fields
191 Original source of the quote not found.

Henry Ford
164 Original source of the quote not found.

Henry Ford II
50 Original source of the quote not found.

Brendan Foster
44 www.alghs.k12.wi.us/high_school/athletics/Cross%20Country/ running_quotes.htm

Michael Frankfurt
35 Richard St. John

Barry Friedman
89, 149 Richard St. John

Norbert Frischkorn
85, 88, 147, 158 Richard St. John

Robert Full
28 Richard St. John

Michael Furdyk
28 Richard St. John

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Cindy Galbraigh
114 Richard St. John

David Gallo
73, 132 Richard St. John

Alex Garden
129 Richard St. John

Bill Gates
21 Michael W. Miller, “How Two Computer Nuts Transformed Industry Before Messy Breakup,” The Wall Street Journal, August 27, 1986” 31, 60 Larry King, “Millennium 2000: Bill Gates Discusses Microsoft, Philanthropy and the Future of Computers,” CNN, January 1, 2000 39 Original source of the quote not found. 63 “Watching His Windows,” Forbes ASAP, Dec. 1, 1997, p. 142 103 Bill Gates, column, New York Times Syndicate, May 8, 1996 108 Janet Lowe, Bill Gates Speaks (John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1998), p. 23. Reprinted with permission of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 83 On stage, TED 2002 93-94 Richard St. John

Frank Ghery
83 On stage, TED, 2002 93-94 Richard St. John

Kevin Gilbert
89, 100 Richard St. John

Terry Gilliam
110, 120, 189 Richard St. John

John Girard
74, 86 Richard St. John

Natalie Glebova
75 Richard St. John

Seth Godin
156, 193 Richard St. John

Martha Graham
136 http://womenshistory.about.com/cs/quotes/a/qu_graham_m.html

Don Green
154 Richard St. John

Nancye Green
30, 161 Richard St. John

Wayne Gretzky
40 Original source of the quote not found.

Susan Grode
62, 68 Richard St. John

Matt Groening
32, 108, 149 Richard St. John

Bill Gross
64 On stage, TED, 2000

Rudolph Guiliani
110 Rudolph W. Giuliani, Leadership, (Hyperion, New York, 2002) p. 4

Aman Gupta
28 Richard St. John

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Paul Haggis
180 Shelagh Rogers, “Sounds Like Canada,” CBC Radio, August 31, 2005

David Hajdu
121-122 Stephen Cole, “Folk heroes, flaws and all,” National Post, June 12, 2001

Nez Hallett III
36, 133, 152, 170, 176 Richard St. John

Gary Hamel
113-114 On stage, TED conference

Suzy Favor Hamilton
131 USA Track & Field, Suzy Favor Hamilton teleconference quotes, May 22, 2001

Marvin Hamlisch
130 Pamela Wallin, Speaking of Success (Key Porter Books Limited, Toronto), p. 243

Graham Hawkes
17-18, 196 Richard St. John

Goldie Hawn
81 Richard St. John

Jerry Hayes
27, 51, 85, 151-152 Richard St. John

Ernest Hemingway
112 Original source of the quote not found.

Heath Herber
166 www.highgain.com, Highgain: The Business of Listening

Conrad Hilton
212 Original source of the quote not found.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
104 Original source of the quote not found.

Lou Holtz
52 Original source of the quote not found.

Dave House
206, 212 Richard St. John

Robert Hunter
174 Richard St. John

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Pico Iyer
121, 136, 139 Richard St. John

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Douglas Jacobs
160 Richard St. John

Janell Jacobs
49 Richard St. John

Willam James
153 Original source of the quote not found.

Anula Jayasuriya
64 Richard St. John

Mae Jemison
110 Richard St. John

David Jensen
69, 75-76, 108 Richard St. John

Norman Jewison
55, 130 Richard St. John

Steve Jobs
18, 20 Stanford Report, June 14, 2005

Colleen Jones
134 Robin Brown, “Inside Track,” CBC Radio, January 5, 2003

Peggy Jones
193 Quincy Jones, Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones (Doubleday, USA, 2001) p. 224

Quincy Jones
30 Quincy Jones, Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones, (USA: Doubleday, 2001) p. 305 60 ibid, p. 67 89-90 ibid., p. 194 140 ibid., p. 67 160 ibid., p. 303 196 Richard St. John

Michael Jordan
31 Mark Vancil, “Playboy Interview: Michael Jordan”, Playboy, May 1992, p. 51 40 Melissa Isaacson, “His Airness Shows He’s Human,” Chicago Tribune, March 20, 1995 51 Original source of the quote not found. 98 Michael Jordan, Rare Air, (Harper Collins: San Francisco, 1993), p. 13 184 “Air Jordan on the Air,” Chicago Tribune, July 17, 1998

Bill Joy
92, 198 Richard St. John

Steve Jurvetson
26, 67, 120, 201 Richard St. John

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Dean Kamen
55 Richard St. John

Mitch Kapor
28 Richard St. John

Helen Keller
7 Original source of the quote not found.

Chip Kidd
138 The Onion, June 2, 2004, volume 40, issue 22 192 Richard St. John

Nicole Kidman
138 83 Lisa Gabriele, “Acting? What was I thinking?” National Post, interview from Britain’s Radio Times magazine, Thursday, March 20, 2003 94 John Hiscock, “Kidman carries on”, National Post, May 7, 2001”

Chris Kilham
73, 147 Richard St. John

Jeong Kim
65 Academy of Achievement – www.achievement.org

Gayle King
114 Kenneth Best, “Q&A: Gayle King: on Television, for News and Talk, Too,” The New York Times, March 29, 1998

Kimberly King
44 Richard St. John

Martin Luther King Jr.
100 Original source of the quote not found.

Stephen King
32, 46, 67-68, 82, 118, 122, 193 Reprinted with permission of Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group. Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (copyright © 2000 by Stephen King)

Pannin Kitiparaporn
116 On stage at the AIC conference in Singapore

Henry Kravis
19, 206 Academy of Achievement – www.achievement.org

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Kate Laidley
52 Richard St. John

Anne Lamot
204 Original source of the quote not found.

Kathleen Lane
46 Richard St. John

Randall Larsen
45, 85 Richard St. John

Jack Lenor Larson
28, 30, 128 Richard St. John

Silken Laumann
49, 73, 183, 202 On stage at the “Unique Lives & Experiences Series,” Roy Thompson Hall, Toronto: Silken Laumann, world champion rower, physical activity advocate and author of Child’s Play - Rediscovering the Joy of Play in Our Families and Communities (Random House), www.silkensactivekids.ca

Dave Lavery
17, 37-38, 90, 149-150, 210 Richard St. John

Mike Lazaridis
64 Deirdre McMurdy, “Research In Motion Ltd.,” Fast Company, issue 49, p. 101

Norman Lear
132, 168 Richard St. John

Dawn Lepore
27, 92, 177, 201, 210 Richard St. John

Darlene Lim
39, 84 Richard St. John

Brian Little
18, 128 Heather Sokoloff, “‘Funny’ Canadian Professor Voted Harvard’s Favourite,” National Post, May 13, 2003

Jennifer Lopez
178 Entertainment Tonight, February 14, 2003

Bill Low
104, 142 Richard St. John

Janet Lowe
21 Janet Lowe, Bill Gates Speaks (John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1998) p. 2. Reprinted with permission of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Gord Lownds
64, 88, 163-164, 196, 200 Richard St. John

Jerry Lynch
96 Runner’s World Extr@, Friday, January 31, 2003

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Douglas MacArthur
198 Original source of the quote not found

Joseph MacInnis
55-56, 168, 179 Richard St. John

Elinor MacKinnon
68, 114, 122 Richard St. John

Margaret MacMillan
19 On stage, Idea City, June 2003

André Malraux
11, 150 Original source of the quote not found.

Elizabeth Manley
150 Lorna Jackson, “World This Weekend,” CBC Radio, January 26, 2002

George Martin
118 George Martin interviewed by Ed Bicknell, keynote for Canadian Music Week, Toronto, March 6, 1998

Linda Martinez
93 Richard St. John

Jamal Mashburn
94 Rick Pitino with Bill Reynolds, Success is a Choice, (Bantam Doubleday Dell, Audio Publishing, 1997)

Jennifer Mather
18, 66 Richard St. John

Jaymie Matthews
46, 61-62, 135 Richard St. John

T.K. Mattingly
25 Richard St. John

Peter Max
56, 135, 138 Richard St. John

Albert Maysles
78 Richard St. John

Paul McCartney
104 Barry Miles, Paul McCartney, Many Years From Now (1st American edition: Secker & Warburg Henry Holt & Company, 1997), p.173 136 ibid., p. 171 131 Larry King Live, “Paul McCartney discusses ‘Blackbird”, CNN, aired June 12, 2001

Craig McCaw
96 Academy of Achievement – www.achievement.org

William McDonough
44, 50, 73, 202 Richard St. John

Deborah McGuinness
58 Richard St. John

Murray McLaughlin
130 Richard St. John

Brian McLeod
132 Shelagh Rogers, “Sounds Like Canada,” CBC Radio, November 14, 2005

Alexander McQueen
19 Bridget Foley, “McQueen’s Kingdom,” W Magazine, July 2002 147 Courtesy of Fashion Television / CHUM Television. All rights reserved.

Rick Mercer
62, 85, 89, 138, 189 Richard St. John

Michelangelo
11, 47 Original source of the quote not found.

Ian Miller
164 CBC Radio, November 5, 1999

Wilson Mizner
42 Original source of the quote not found.

Katherine Mohr
210 Richard St. John

Tom Monaghan
63 Harry Beckwith, Selling the Invisible (copyright © 1997 by Harry Beckwith). By permission of Warner Books, Inc.

Louis Monier
56 Richard St. John

Jean Monty
139, 141, 164, 165 Richard St. John

Rick Moran
165, 181 Richard St. John

Edwin Moses
66 Original source of the quote not found.

Walt Mossberg
90, 163 Richard St. John

Aimee Mullins
18 Richard St. John

Robert Munsch
25, 12, 138 Richard St. John

Story Musgrave
133, 137-138 Richard St. John

Debbie Myers
29 Richard St. John

Mike Myers
81 Original source of the quote not found.

Nathan Myhrvold
70 Richard St. John

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Napoleon Bonaparte
11 Original source of the quote not found.

Peter C. Newman
35 Richard St. John

Jakob Nielsen
159 Richard St. John

Drew Nieporent
42, 81 Richard St. John

Don Norman
58, 139, 199 Richard St. John

Dr Izzy Novak
20 “Say What?”, Elevate Magazine, New Year, 2003

Lisa Nugent
206 Richard St. John

Sherwin Nuland
41, 58, 128, 154 Richard St. John

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Erin O’Connor
75 Joan Lunden, “Behind Closed Doors with Joan Lunden,” A&E Television Networks, March 23, 2001

Charles Oakley
110 Dave Feschuk, National Post, March 23, 2001

David Oreck
169, 178 Patty Kovacevich, “David Oreck Moves the Air,” Airport Journals, August 2005

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Larry Page
36, 58, 176 Richard St. John

Arnold Palmer
92 Original source of the quote not found.

François Parenteau
36, 156, 180 Richard St. John

Louis Pasteur
173 Pauline Barrett, Success - Inspirational Quotations, Four Seasons Publishing

Jimmy Pattison
38 Tetsuro Shigematsu, “The Roundup,” CBC Radio, August 1, 2005

George S. Patton
62, 202 Original source of the quote not found.

Linus Pauling
104 Original source of the quote not found.

Gregory Peck
192, 204 Original source of the quote not found.

J.C. Penney
42 Criswell Freeman, The Book of Florida Wisdom, Walnut Grove Press (March 1, 1996)

Josef Penninger
57, 111, 140, 203, 205 Richard St. John

Irene Pepperberg
78 Richard St. John

H. Ross Perot
199-200 Original source of the quote not found.

Pablo Picasso
94, 113 Original source of the quote not found. 116 Picasso and ceramics exhibit, Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, ON

Steven Pinker
106 Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works (W. W. Norton & Co., New York & London, 1999)

Rick Pitino
52, 94, 122, 208 Rick Pitino with Bill Reynolds, Success is a Choice, (Bantam Doubleday Dell, Audio Publishing, 1997)

William Plomer
117 Richard Saul Wurman, Information Anxiety 2, Que

Colin Powell
22 Many sources.

Lakshmi Pratury
94, 142 Richard St. John

Marcel Proust
110 Original source of the quote not found.

Gail Prowse
150 Richard St. John

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Isador Isaac Rabi
114 Original source of the quote not found.

The Raspyni Brothers
89, 149 Richard St. John

Cliff Read
70 Richard St. John

Sumner Redstone
19 Barbara Walters interview, December 1999

Pam Reed
211 Scott Gold, “First Woman wins Badwater 135-Miler”, Los Angeles Times, January 6, 2004

Ron Rice
44, 109 Richard St. John

Keith Richards
131 Victor Bockris, Keith Richards (Hutchinson, London, “Stones” by Kruger, published by Morpheus), p. 24

Cathy Rigby
61 Cathy Rigby, “Ten Words That I Never Forget,” http://www. souloflife.com/tenwords.html, September 12, 2004

Ed Robertson
44, 88, 192 Richard St. John

Chris Rock
41 A&E Biography: Chris Rock

John D. Rockefeller Jr.
61 Original source of the quote not found.

Anita Roddick
50 Anita Roddick, Business as Unusual (Thorsons, 2000), p. 31. Permission granted by the author, www.anitaroddick.com

Bob Rogers
57, 122, 160 Richard St. John

Harry Rosen
151 Richard St. John

Kim Rossmo
58, 203 Richard St. John

Paul Rowan
141-142, 186 Richard St. John

J.K. Rowling
20 Marc Shapiro, J.K. Rowling, The Wizard Behind Harry Potter (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2000) 90 Margaret Weir, “Of Magic and Single Motherhood,” Salon.com, March 31, 1999 140 Lindsey Fraser, Conversations With J.K. Rowling (Scholastic Inc, USA, October 2001), p. 21

Susan Ruptash
27, 35, 56, 90, 129, 149, 209 Richard St. John

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Stefan Sagmeister
84 Richard St. John

Joan Samuelson
86 Joan Samuelson, Running for Women, Rodale Press

Carl Sandburg
24 Original source of the quote not found.

Ben Saunders
22, 43-44, 74, 181, 198 Richard St. John

Forrest Sawyer
174, 195 Richard St. John

Robert J. Sawyer
193 Richard St. John

Steve Schklair
43, 74, 199 Richard St. John

Michael Schrage
205 Richard St. John

Wayne Schuurman
51-52, 77, 116, 142, 166 Richard St. John

Daniel Schwartz
153 Richard St. John

Gerry Schwartz
132, 180 Richard St. John

Steven Schwartz
76, 119, 188 Richard St. John

Albert Schweitzer
154 Original source of the quote not found.

Patricia Seemann
204, 211-212 Richard St. John

Seth
82, 84 Seth, “A good artist must be torn between arrogance and selfloathing,” National Post, http://peteashton.com/mirror/seth/seth4.html

Issy Sharp
49, 66, 91, 121, 133, 147, 159, 161, 169, 191-192 Richard St. John

Lindsay Sharp
66, 118, 154 Richard St. John

George Sheehan
198 Original source of the quote not found.

Martin Short
40 “The Ground Breakers”, Elm Street Magazine, October 2001

Paula Silver
147 Richard St. John

Peter Silverberg
165 Richard St. John

Gene Simmons
49-50 Two Hundred Greatest Pop Culture Icons, VH1, 2003

Sinbad
121, 182 Richard St. John

Laurie Skreslet
115, 135 Richard St. John

Fred Smith
127 Academy of Achievement – www.achievement.org

Rick Smolan
192 Richard St. John

Art Spiegelman
115 Eleanor Wachtel, “Writers and Company,” CBC Radio, January 6, 2002

Michael Stadtlander
212 Richard St. John

Ringo Starr
111 Barry Miles and Paul McCartney, Many Years From Now (Secker & Warburg Henry Holt & Company, 1997), p. 164

Martha Stewart
11, 23, 35, 56, 114, 155, 168 Richard St. John 151 On stage, TED 11, February 2001

Joseph Sugarman
180 www.usdreams.com, The web’s resource on ohe American dream

Sam Sullivan
127, 159-160 Richard St. John

Leonard Susskind
36, 104 Richard St. John

Donald Sutherland
84 Barrett Hooper, “I’m Not a Redford Type,” National Post, Wednesday, May 28, 2003

Jessica Switzer
46, 162, 170, 202 Richard St. John

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Amy Tan
98 Academy of Achievement – www.achievement.org 127 Richard St. John

Bill Tatham
64 Peter MacDonald, PROFITeer: The e-newsletter, Dell Publishing, volume 4, number 8

Freeman Thomas
29 Richard St. John

Anthony Tjan
158 Richard St. John

Rip Torn
75 Scott Rabb, “What I’ve Learned: Rip Torn,” Esquire, a Hearst Publication, May 1, 2001”

Amber Trotter
96 Runner’s World Extr@, Friday January 17, 2003

Charlie Trotter
20 Ron Lieber, “Design - Charlie Trotter,” Fast Company, issue 30, p. 250

Cynthia Trudell
114, 182 Speech at the Sheraton Centre, Toronto, 1999

Donald Trump
18, 200 “Donny Deutsch: The Big Idea,” CNBC, June 1, 2005 105 Original source of the quote not found.

Alexander Tsiaras
195-196 Richard St. John

Kenneth Tuchman
50, 62 Adrienne Sanders, edited by Katarzyna Moreno, “On My Mind: Success Secrets of the Successful”, Forbes Magazine, Nov 2, 1998. Reprinted by Permission of Forbes Magazine © 2006 Forbes Inc.

Ann Turner
174, 212 Richard St. John

Ted Turner
35-36 Gary Smith, “What Makes Ted Run?”, Sports Illustrated, June 23, 1986, p. 78 40, 197 Peter Ross Range, “Playboy Interview: Ted Turner”, Playboy, August 1978, pp. 70-74 60 Maynard Good Stoddard, “Cable TV’s Ted Turner: Spirited Skipper of CNN”, The Saturday Evening Post, March 1984” 103 “Turner Vows Worldwide CNN as Cable’s Coming Tops Edinburgh Agenda,” Variety, Sept. 8, 1982, p. 96

Mark Twain
196 Pauline Barrett, Success - Inspirational Quotations, Four Seasons Publishing

John Tyson
39 Richard St. John

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Jane Urqhuart
81 Avril Benoit, CBC Radio, November 5, 2001

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Stephan Van Dam
88 Richard St. John

Maurizio Vecchione
89, 130 Richard St. John

Craig Venter
31 Richard St. John

Eva Vertes
61, 86, 201 Richard St. John

Bruce Vilanch
112 Richard St. John

Roger von Oech
182 Original source of the quote not found.

Marilyn vos Savant
109 Original source of the quote not found.

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Elliot Wahle
165 Richard St. John

Sam Walton
112 Original source of the quote not found.

Robert Ward
24, 80, 173-174 Richard St. John

John Warnock
195 Richard St. John

James Watson
76, 95, 188, 205 Richard St. John

Wendy Watson
203-204 Richard St. John

Erik Weihenmayer
26, 140 Erik Weihenmayer, Touch the Top of the World (copyright © 2002 by Erik Weihenmayer). Used by permission of Dutton, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

Jack Welch
37 Janet Lowe, Jack Welch Speaks (John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1998). Reprinted with permission of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 103 Charles R. Day Jr. and Polly LaBarre, “GE: Just Your Average Everyday $60 Billion Family Grocery Store,” Industry Week, May 2, 1994 131 Jack Welch, speech to shareholders, General Electric annual meeting, Erie, PA, April 25, 1990 149 On stage at the Seventh Annual Awards Dinner of the Work in America Institute 186 Janet Lowe, Jack Welch Speaks (John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1998), p. 78. Reprinted with permission of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Leslie Westbrook
74, 100, 114 Richard St. John

Ted Williams
132 Original source of the quote not found.

Bruce Willis
42 New Idea

Oprah Winfrey
43 “Joanna Powell, “I Was Trying to Fill Something Deeper,” Good Housekeeping, October 1996, p. 80 95 Dana Kennedy, “Oprah: Act Two”, Entertainment Weekly, September 9, 1994, p. 20 132 Larry King Live, “Oprah Winfrey Discusses Her Success”, CNN, aired September 4, 2001” 186 Myrna Blyth, “Advice from Oprah,” Ladies’ Home Journal, February 1995, p. 10 198 Bob Greene and Oprah Winfrey, “How She Did It: Winfrey’s Fitness Success Is Detailed in a Five Part Series,” St. Louis Post Dispatch, January 6, 1997, p.1E

Sheldon Wiseman
38, 82 Richard St. John

Michael Wolff
204 Richard St. John

John Wooden
134 On stage, TED, February 2001 137 Coach John Wooden with Steve Jamison, Wooden (Chicago: McGraw-Hill Contemporary, 1997), p. 144 208 ibid., p. 80

Ken Woodrow
55, 192 Richard St. John

Tiger Woods
20, 65-66, 127-128, 178 Larry King Weekend, “Tiger Woods: A Golf Legend,” CNN, April 15, 2001 81-82 Cam Cole, “Golf’s favoured son,” National Post, June 13, 2001

Hawksley Workman
131-132 Aaron Wherry, “He Just Wants You to Listen,” National Post, December 22, 2003

Frank Lloyd Wright
207 Vincent Scully, Sterling Professor Emiritus of the History of Art, Yale University

Richard Saul Wurman
113, 131 Richard St. John 193 Richard Saul Wurman, Information Anxiety 2, Que

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Babe Didrikson Zaharias
66 Criswell Freeman, The Book of Florida Wisdom, Walnut Grove Press (March 1, 1996)

Greg Zeschuk
36, 92, 134 Richard St. John

Zig Zigler
154 Original source of the quote not found.

Donald Ziraldo
142 Richard St. John

Moses Znaimer
207 Richard St. John

David Zussman
162 Richard St. John