A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be

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.

be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.

The kind of dreams you have determines the kind of people to get connected to.

But how can I give to God what is rightfully His? There is only one way; that is in service to others.

Memories do not always behave in an orderly way, but bloom, as it were, erratically.

Self-realization is a very quiet thing. It's not flashy. No one might see you light up a room. No one might observe anything

To some people Love is given, To others Only Heaven.

All meaning alters with acceleration, because all patterns of personal and political interdependence change with any acceleration of information.

Whether it's a bright shoe or a clutch or a lipstick, I've had a lot of fun using color contacts as an accessory.

I hate to see prudence clinging to the green suckers of youth; 'tis like ivy round a sapling, and spoils the growth of the tree.

Will you ever bring a better gift for the world than the breathing respect that you carry wherever you go right now?