Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.

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.

God can bless you wherever you are.

If you wish to marry well, inquire well.

You are not creating a new you; you are releasing a hidden you. The process is one of self discovery. The hidden you that wants to emerge is in perfect balance.

Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial.

The point is to stumble upon things in your life, and not plan them out.

If there was a story about boys playing punk I don't think I would've made it, because it would just be the same, it wouldn't be interesting enough.

We should resist the temptation to identify our religious convictions with the platform of a party or the platitudes of favored politicians.

Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.

Religion Caesar never knew Thy posterity shall sway, Where his eagles never flew, None as invincible as they.