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

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.

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.

Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.

The stalker, meanwhile, stepped into the road. Didn’t even check for traffic. There wasn’t any, but something told me this was lucky for traffic rather than the stalker.

In those moments it's hard to remember that an angry voice is an invisible thing incapable of drawing blood.

you must not come lightly to the blank page.

Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry it.

I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.

The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears.

I like the sound of people's voices, and I think what a man says can very well tell what he's thinking, whether he's lying or not.

The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.

That's where money comes from, you work hard and you earn and then you spend it on correct things, and Public Image is a correct thing.

When there is a storm in your life, it is not the time to build. No creature on earth tries to build during a storm. Conserve your energy until the storm passes.