By the late '90s, those who were paying attention perceived the Internet as a 20-foot tidal wave coming, and we are all in kayaks.

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 sky seemed abruptly to have had enough of my dithering and dramatically lightened up around the glowing moon, which retreated like an aging sovereign before the rising sun.

It's not hard to create self-beliefs that produce a successful and happy life. The main job is to unlearn your limiting beliefs.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

Work in a place that feels good to you. Select the best of that which is available. The Zen of working is just to do it, not to worry about it. Feel you would be doing it without the money.

Genres do exist because frequent users of any large bookstore can instantly tell what any piece of fiction is supposed to be about by its title, its cover and its location in the shop.

The spinning wheel is a symbol of nonviolence for me.

Once the facts are clear the decisions jump out at you.

There are 1.3 billion people today who have no access to electricity. Many of them rely on kerosene lanterns for light, but kerosene is both expensive and hazardous to the health.

I love having no sense of tomorrow or yesterday.

We need to learn how to separate need from greed.