Don't lose youself on the way to the top.

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.

Let me tell you something, kid, " said Mrs. H of Boston and Beacon Hill. "Magic is just a word for what's left to the powerless once everyone else has eaten their fill.

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism

I don't think the clothes make me, but I make the clothes.

When perfectionism is driving us, shame is riding shotgun and fear is that annoying backseat driver!

You know what's a savvy business move? Making a profit.

In our world, where hundreds of things distract us from God, we have to intentionally and consistently remind ourselves of Him.

Rome wasn't built in a day, but man, did they get a break on the labor.

Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson's Ice Cream shop.

What good is inspiration if it's not backed up by action?