A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.

Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.

A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.

How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.

You have to understand what it is that you are better at than anybody else and mercilessly focus your efforts on it.

Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

If the brutal facts are not faced by leaders, the brutal reality sets in.

The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.

There is nothing to find, only to realize. There is nothing to become, only to be. There is nothing to fear, only to love.

We do not have any other time other than today.

We Americans are interested only in the consumption of our products. We have no interest in how they are produced, or what happens to them once we discard them, once we throw them away.

I'm endlessly putting myself on tapes for things over in America! I'm always sitting at home, learning lines, sending stuff to America.

Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

Hey ! Ain t it glorious to be living?

The Grim Reaper doesn't disappear... he catches up.

No. --Claire Bullshit! Yes, a world of yes. --Eve

We would do best in a market where everyone acted foolishly.