If you managed a baseball team, would you listen more closely to the team accountant or the director of player personnel?

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 man will understand the real essence of staying in the solitude with his Maker alone, he will never spend all his time with the crowd always

It was not a coincidence. It was not deja vu. It was destiny. It was my destiny to meet her.

There is nothing I fear more than someone without memory. A person without memory is free to do anything she likes.

Why do anything unless it is going to be great?

... it's possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.

I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.

Realise that man is comparable to the brute creation except when uplifted by the loving Covenant initiated with our Patriarchs.

Remember that transformation is a present activity.

I want to be the first guy from my generation who doesn't just represent one record but the promise of a lot of them.

Holocaust? Ninety million Indians? Only four million left? They all have casinos - what's to complain about?