I never put myself out there as an employment agency.

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.

I've always thought the most patriotic thing you could do in a democracy is to speak the truth as you see it. And that's what we're supposed to be about in America. Freedom of speech.

Some things are best mended by a break.

I covet honour in the same way as a miser covets gold.

From nothing I have created another entirely new world.

If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know when they go see a movie that it is fiction.

I found myself in too much of a box situation.

I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books.

We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former.

It's in our interest to continue with the Paris Agreement and to deal with climate change as the real threat it actually is.

I feel like it is only music where people are like, "You can't do this for other people, you have to do it for yourself." Which I hate.