I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

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.

You have no minute to spare... All you have is to dare! It should be at the back of your mind to beware...

Only youth has a taste of immortality.

It was sweet and lovely, that smile, perhaps the more so because it wasn’t complicated by much in the way of thought.

I believe very strongly in paid sick leave.

There is no such thing as a baby, there is a baby and someone.

Perhaps, she says (Madame de la Rougierre), Other souls than human are sometimes born into the world & clothed in human flesh.

It almost makes the secrets more important, those few things you actually do choose to keep to yourself.

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

Typically, you get a year in prison for making a threat to assassinate the president.

Lasting change can occur only when it takes in the spirit of the mind.