Companies don't give job security. Only satisfied customers do.

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.

I grab at Smitty and he at me, and, for one horrible, deperately embarrassing second we fly into each others arms like Shaggy and Scooby Don't.

It would be hard to degrade yourself, if you don't have to rely on others to define your worth.

Remember we are all connected by a garland we call love.

Things have a life of their own, " the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls.

My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

The word of God is the medicine of the heart.

We're not like the American administration, we're not social media administration or government. We are a government that deals with reality. When we have evidence, we'll announce it.

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.