If we wait for the perfect answer, the world will pass us by

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 drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe.

What’s wrong with turning back the clock if the clock is wrong? We need not be slaves to our technologies

I think that our leadership, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner, are taking the right approach.

We weed out the darnel from the corn and the unfit in war, but do not excuse evil men from the service of the state.

There's nothing worse than a good video and good song, and you see a band and hate them because they can't perform. That's wack.

I tell the actors that the biggest gift they can give me is to fail. And that the second gift they can give me is to surprise me.

The generation that has the greatest access to knowledge in the history of mankind is the one that cares the least about it.

Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time.

I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees.

The silence that is in the starry sky, / The sleep that is among the lonely hills.