A culture of discipline is not a principle of business, it is a principle of greatness.

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.

Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.

True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.

The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.

If you have more than three priorities then you don't have any.

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

But then science is nothing but a series of questions that lead to more questions.

As long as the focus is on God the style of the music is irrelevant.

There's something about the Strat's shape that is at once masculine and feminine

everyone tells you what's good for you. they don't want you to find your own answers. they want you to believe theirs.

Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour.

He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils.

I've always been loud and obnoxious and sneaking my way into things, and so I feel like I've snuck my way onto the Lollapalooza lineup, and I'm going to sneak my way into whatever else I get to do.

I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so it looks like his voice is coming out of my mouth.

Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn't a corpse.

I find any great man, black or white, I'm going to study him, learn him so he can't be great to me no more.