I’ve learned in a hundred ways that I rarely regretted acting but often regretted NOT acting fast enough.

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.

If Aphrodite chills at home in Cyprus for most of the year, then Fez must be the goddess’s playground.

Don't be scared of scars. They just tell stories that are hard to hear.

Back then, Billy imagined that drops of rain were unanswered prayers falling back to earth.

Public radio has always been so powerless.

There are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, just permanent interests.

The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you.

Tie me up, tie me down, make me moan real loud.

Beaches and romantic comedies are not my thing. I'm a workaholic.

Evil habits, in which men indulge, are the chief cause of disease in the physical as well as the mental state.

Human rights means protecting another's freedom, seeing that the other person is also like oneself. Human rights is giving others security, letting them live.