If you can't energize others, you can't be a leader.

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.

Acceptance is the key to finding where my truth lies in the darkness.

I like stories that grow, that have unpredictable layers. As opposed to Hollywood movies that start out with a lot of shock and noise and peter out into an unconvincing cliche.

My life has been the antithesis of that book 'The Secret'. I've always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing.

I was always amazed at how beautiful the light was. At different times of the day the landscape becomes a different place. Dawn and dusk, it's a different place.

He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.

I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all.

I no longer say nice things about yoga. I was doing yoga so long before everybody else.

Research, research, research. It means everything.

You managed to get him a duster, but you couldn't find me a pair of jeans?

Importantly, rather than promoting aggression, testosterone promotes whatever is needed to maintain status when challenged.