And this is good old Boston The home of the bean and the cod - Where the Lowells talk to the Cabots And the Cabots talk only to God.

I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.

Self-awareness gives you the capacity to learn from your mistakes as well as your successes. It enables you to keep growing.

Execution is the ability to mesh strategy with reality, align people with goals, and achieve the promised results.

If you don't have the best people you hurt everyone.

Execution is a systematic process of rigorously discussing hows and whats, tenaciously following through, and ensuring accountability.

Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.

How people talk to each other absolutely determines how well the organization will function.

At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.

Execution is the job of the business leader.

I'm just going to keep going and goind and going until I can't go anymore.

But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?

What grace I have is enough.

Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.

The truth has no form, you know. It's not like walking around trying to actually ask for favors and to be acknowledged, it is what it is.

I've certainly seen stats that if you have a woman director or a woman screenwriter, the number of female characters goes way up.

One thing I don't think that we have enough of in wine writing is the use of cause and effect. Whatever wine tastes like, whatever you're going to do with it, it is as it is for a reason.

We need faith, not because there are beings who will punish us or reward us, but because gods are a wonderful way of describing things that are happening to us.

I live by syllogisms: God is love. Love is blind. Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God. I don't know what I'd believe in if it wasn't for that.

Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Leaders' careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.