Excellence and competitiveness aren't incompatible with honesty and integrity.

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.

Whether you call yourself a Christian, a Jew, a Muslim, a Hindu or an Atheist, if you have kindness in your heart and compassion in your act, you are on the right path of religion.

It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.

Hang Mortmain," said Will. "And I mean that literally, of course, but also figuratively.

If women can sleep their way to the top, how come they aren't there?

No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish.

Wisdom is one of the few things in human life that does not diminish with age.

Christian is a great noun and a poor adjective

I used to read the myths of love Now I have become the mythical lover

I have touched the highest point of all my greatness.

No matter whether you claim a slave by purchase or capture, the title is bad. They who claim to own their fellow-men, look down into the pit and forget the justice that should rule the world.