Good leadership is about the company's success, not your own.

Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.

I have zero tolerance for people who don't come completely prepared. I expect contribution, I expect attendance, and I expect directors to take trips and visit the company's programs.

Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else.

Who you are, what your values are, what you stand forthey are your anchor, your north star. You won't find them in a book. You'll find them in your soul.

An important mark of a good leader [is] to know you don’t know it all and never will.

Even under the most difficult circumstances you can have creative flexibility.

There's nothing quite as powerful as people feeling they can have impact and make a difference. When you've got that going for you, I think it's a very powerful way to implement change.

When you have that window of opportunity called a crisis, move as quickly as you can, get as much done as you can. There's a momentum for change that's very compelling.

As much as it's sometimes hard to make choices about where you invest, it's equally hard to make choices about where you don't invest and what you eliminate.

You have to live the mission... love what you do.

Wait a minute, I'm thinking, was this another one of those conversations where what is meant and what is being said are not the same thing?

We all know you're beautiful, Scott.

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.

In India, the poverty is so vast that the state cannot control it. It can beat people, but it can't prevent the poor from flooding the roads, the cities, the parks and railway station platforms.

There is a time to take a stand and there is a time to take your leave.

That's what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward.

If it's good they'll stop making it.

Polo drifts gently in and out of fashion.

If I'm on the court, I have to do what I do best and that's try to go hard to the basket.

The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense.