Getting candor right - with your reports, your peers, and your boss - is a skill that can make or break your career.

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.

Everything that happens where we live happens in us. Everything that ceases in what we see ceases in us. Everything that has been, if we saw it when it was, was taken from us when it went away.

It's kind of hard to rally around a math class.

I’ve always said that you can live without water for many days, but you can’t live for a second without hope.

Secrecy is for losers.

No law is an issue until someone tries to enforce it.

The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.

If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?

When Jesus died on the cross, so did your sin; when He rose from the dead, so did your HOPE.

The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold - if you have one.

How am I going to make friends with these people if all I can think of is how easy it would be to rob them?