All of management is about self-confidence

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.

Authentic prayer changes us, unmasks us, strips us, indicates where growth is needed.

In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.

Those who deserve respect are given it freely. If one must demand such a thing, he'll never truly command it.

I don’t want to do a cocktail party. I’d rather people left my shows and vomited.

Kestilan?" There was that name again. Oliver fought down an irrational surge of jealousy for this mysterious being who took up so much of Petunia's attention.

You do not use art as a means to an end, but as a way to inhabit and explore the present. Right and wrong fade away; you recover your sense of what is authentic in you.

An adult is just a child who started to rot

This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories.

I have a reputation for being the hardest working person in Congress.

If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting.