HR should be every company's killer app. What could possibly be more important than who gets hired?

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.

Does truth have a moral?

One deep breath, one last step and out into oblivion where death held out its arms into a welcoming embrace.

In the furnace of affliction, we are refined and purified.

Their dark skin, their gender, their economic status--none of those were acceptable excuses for not giving the fullest rein to their imaginations and ambitions.

The free lunch has still to be invented.

I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.

We stand tallest when we stoop to help others.

What is faith if it is not translated into action?

Music comes from the musician, not the instrument.

The moment when one thing turns into another is the most beautiful moment. A combination of sounds turns into music. And that applies to everything.