Every great leader has a generosity gene.

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 stop seeking, even when it seems there is no hope

Believe in God is the boldness of being.

I know love is real because her love is visible.

Every man is a genius, for God exists in all men.

Who except the gods can live without any pain?

The camera is a mirror with a memory, but it cannot think.

The universe is not particularly concerned with you.

To put it simply, we first explain what we are talking about, and then explain why what we are saying is true (pace Bertrand Russell).

My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today

[On England:] In this country there are only two seasons, winter and winter.