Execution is the job of the business leader.

I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.

Self-awareness gives you the capacity to learn from your mistakes as well as your successes. It enables you to keep growing.

Execution is the ability to mesh strategy with reality, align people with goals, and achieve the promised results.

If you don't have the best people you hurt everyone.

Execution is a systematic process of rigorously discussing hows and whats, tenaciously following through, and ensuring accountability.

Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.

How people talk to each other absolutely determines how well the organization will function.

At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.

I'm just going to keep going and goind and going until I can't go anymore.

No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can't make a difference.

If you have learned to be good by yourself you will always be.

Good-quality travel and good-quality food are the two luxuries that I never have any guilt indulging in.

I think track records are very important. If you start early trying to have a perfect one in some simple thing like honesty, you're well on your way to success in this world.

If you share a faith, there is an immediate foundation of trust there.

At the BBC we've had plenty of women in good management jobs. It comes and goes but there's been plenty. On air, I think there's quite a bit more we can do.

A way of spreading the dharma is just telling people, sharing with them your experiences. Never push it, never be a missionary. Be completely selfless; realize you're only an instrument of eternity.

It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity.

When a poor person dies I want then to die in the arms of somebody who loves them. I want them to be able to look for the last time into the eyes of somebody who cares for them

The only story that seems worth writing is a cry, a shot, a scream. A story should break the reader's heart.