As a leader, your job is to energize people around the mission and vision you've articulated.

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.

Destiny is what is happening to you right now.

. . . I could't get lost in the story, not the way you need to be, to become somebody else.

Yeah, save the idiots in government, definitely a priority. He didn't say it out loud, though.

I wanted to work with Cate Blanchett. She is one of the five greatest movie actresses of her generation.

I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.

I've been on shows that went for years and years and years, and I was not ready for that again.

It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.

Politics is not only about personal choice. That one also needs to take into consideration what the people want because in the end, they are the ones who decide.

Well, Dwight was born to be No. 2 and I don't think he would know what to do as a leader. But he loves following. He would have made a great fascist.

Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.