Don't make the process harder than it is.

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’ is Absolute

I told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales.

Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.

I did not want to leave the Mets and I did not want to leave New York.

It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.

The candidates we have in this campaign are... the most accomplished, in terms of public service, that we've had since 1960. One of them will be successful.

It is said that if one chooses to pray to a rock with enough devotion, even that rock will come alive.

The telescope... is a conduit to the cosmos.

My doom and my strength is to be solitary.

Everyone has an effect on others. Some people inspire others to do great things. Some take people into crime with them. Those with the gift affect those around them even more.