Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

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.

Never underestimate somebody's silence. Lot more is conveyed through it. A person who respects human emotions will understand this better.

To believe your own thought to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.

I love my cigar too, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while.

I like playing the stuff where I don´t know what I´m gonna play. Like the end of Fake Plastic Trees or the end of Paranoid Android - stuff where I can do anything and no one notices or cares.

It never occurred to me that I looked like a movie star.

...Khufu who is believed to have been the pharaoh who commissioned the building of the great pyramid at Giza.

You never know what's going to happen with television these days.

I try to come to my reporting as a real, whole person, not an automaton.

The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments.

We become what we love. Whatever you are giving your time and attention to, day after day, is the kind of person you will eventually become.