Common mission trap for companies: trying to be all things to all people at all times.

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.

The wars of people will be more terrible than those of kings.

So many parents think they always need to teach their children about life, when in fact, if they listened once in a while, they would learn from their kids what life is truly about.

I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, "This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles.

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace.

Now, I simply won’t let my friends, the people who trusted me, be bothered and badgered about

Feel the feelings and drop the story.

I'm not going to spend two years of my life on something that I'm not excited about.

The Internet has definitely opened doors and leveled the playing field for musicians.

It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.