As a leader, you have no right to have any employee wonder how they fit in and where they are going.

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.

But sometimes, in tight corners, when your back is against the wall and the world is against you, you have to fight back in unexpected ways.

Let's Not Just Be Heroes! Let's Be Heroes Who Lead!

Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

I'm incredibly lucky that my profession allows me to be where I choose, really.

Occasionally one speaks... of signals or signal chains. It should be noted that the word signal means the transmission of signs and hence concerns the very principle of causal order.

Everything is not laden with potential for drama in life.

For the snark was a boojum, you see.

I think in general there's no point in going into a field like English literature if you're not going to have fun with it.

Whether we know it or not, we are all in a quest after the Great Companion. All study, all art, all music, all literature, all government, all industry are in essence a search after the Infinite.