Cash is king. Get every drop of cash you can get and hold onto it.

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.

It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.

Mind you, the effectiveness of one hunter’s gun does not determine the number of bush meats the other hunter will kill. You got to be yourself. Be you.

...because I'm even more determined to bring that light back to his eyes. And I know my love is strong enough to do it.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

In my experience, it is entirely possible to watch something happen and not to see it at all.

It's not fair that women look in the mirror and feel disgust because of what society has made them believe.

I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.

I have no skills. I mean, I can make jokes, I'm pretty good at talking to people on the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I can figure out what makes a pretty good story, and I can make eggs really well.

Be faithful in little things, for in them your strength lies. To the good God nothing is little, because He is so great and we are so small.

I don't like to discuss my marriage, but I will tell you something which may sound corny but which happens to be true. I have steak at home. Why should I go out for hamburger?