If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.

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.

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Good teams are committed to the team mission and to each other personally. Good leaders inspire and build this commitment and trust.

Blueness doth express trueness.

I don't know anything about luck, but that the harder I train, the luckier I get.

But someone like Claude Chabrol tries to make a connection between the society in which we live and the social reasons which make monsters out of some people

The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God.

Only the present moment contains life.

I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.

We were poor when I was young but the difference was that the government didn't come around telling you you were poor.

We've moved away from being a culture of people who think about movies to one made up of people who believe that spouting a list of preferences is the same as registering an opinion.