Assume any career move you make won't go smoothly. They won't. But don't look back.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.

Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.

A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.

How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.

You have to understand what it is that you are better at than anybody else and mercilessly focus your efforts on it.

Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

If the brutal facts are not faced by leaders, the brutal reality sets in.

The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.

The cave sits tucked deep within the mass of rocks that sprout like moles from the forest floor.

The illusion of beauty - the rule of comparisons.

I need to learn not just to forget but to forgive.

The geologic cycle is a bunch of balarky.

Who cares who's right or wrong when the last word is a kind apology?

When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.

another word for talent is obsession.

Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings.

Are we even now? Or do you want to rape my body as much as you’ve raped my soul? (Acheron)

There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.