Don't take a job because your mother wants you to. Don't be a victim. You own your decision.

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.

Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.

Be grateful that your righteous life molds you so that you don’t fit where you don’t belong

Africa is on the move; a new Africa is emerging!

There's boldness in being assertive; there's strength and confidence.

I cross the place where my heart used to be and hope to be even deader than I am now.

I only respond to Telemundo when it's about novellas, in regards to music or movies they have nothing to do with it; that's mine.

New techniques - often spinning out of technology and lack of privacy has resulted in new manipulative communication formats.

It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.

Forecasts are difficult to make-particularly those about the future.

God, it's so painful when something that's so close is still so far out of reach.