If your CFO is more important than your CHRO (Chief Human Resource Officer) you're nuts!

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.

when exactly do the abuses that have been tolerated for so long become intolerable? When does the fear evaporate and the rage generate action that produces joy?

You refused to fall in love with anyone else, Dmitri.” A whisper with the impact of a gun-shot. “So I had to come back for you . . . husband.

The terror of art lies in the representation of the hidden reality with its shattering effect.

Art, like Nature, has her monsters

I believe that the time to start thinking about your legacy is not at the end but at the beginning, because as I said, that's when you're able to do something about it.

Before Geller we did not understand the King's Indian Defence.

I could get an audience into my world and if you can do that, they'll go with you not all the way, but a lot of the way.

I have often regretted what I have eaten, but never what I have drunk.

Unscientific man is beset by a deplorable desire to have been right. The scientist is distinguished by a desire to be right.

Let your former selves teach you, but never limit or define you