A good leader remains focused. Controlling your destination is better than being controlled by it

I might not be the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but I'm pretty good at getting most of the other bulbs to light up.

Be candid with everyone.

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

Change before you have to.

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world.

Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy . . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products.

If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

Everyone has more choices than they are made to believe.

If you meet a girl, you meet a girl. It's normal, so if you exchange numbers, whatevs, it's cool.

If two irreconcilable elements are struggling with each other, the solution lies in force. There has never been any other solution in history, and there never will be.

I learned through apprenticeship. I was an assistant to a defensive coach, and I'm still learning.

Seeking can become stressful when you apply the same laws that you apply in the material world - hard work, exacting plans, driving ambition, and attachment to outcome.

One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.

I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.

When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.

Dissent is morally neutral. You can correctly call yourself a dissident because you like to kick puppies, but at the end of the day, you're just a jerk who likes to kick puppies.

n the world, those who break the rules are scum, but those who abandon their friends are worse than scum.