Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur.

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.

Pursue your dream with great might.

My only chance is to pretend it's a day like any other

Achieving success is your ability to eliminate the weakness and biases that are inherent within yourself

We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain.

The deeper within that you are coming from, the higher the perspective you’ll be able to have.

I just have to be very, very organised.

Phish is such a good band; they just make stuff up as a jam band.