Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.

Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.

True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.

The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.

If you have more than three priorities then you don't have any.

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.

Her shut-eyed smile transformed itself into something else: the smile of someone brave and knowing, someone whose pain had made her wise.

Diversification and globalization are the keys to the future.

What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for.

What we have been is an established and unchangeable fact. What we can yet become is an unlimited, boundless opportunity.

If we think about sexual life for a gender life, it seems to me that we have to allow for certain kinds of changes or certain kinds of ways of reconceptualizing ourselves.

I love everything about you that hurts.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work.

In the orchard and rose garden I long to see your face. In the taste of Sweetness I long to kiss your lips. In the shadows of passion I long for your love.

I want to be indifferent to vengeance. It's degrading. Not having a spirit of vengeance protects me, internally.

Very sorry to disappoint you, guys. It was not for my girlfriend but for Sachin Tendulkar.