In every company, differentiation is never more important than it is in times of trouble, and that's the time when everyone tends to go to the well and equalize rather than differentiate.

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.

Some people are as angry as they seem to be only because it's the safest place to hide from more pain.

One trouble with growing older is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure who didn't amount to much when he was your age.

I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.

And this is the marvel of marvels; that he called me Beloved.

They first condemn that first advised the ill.

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

Take thou of me, sweet pillowes, sweetest bed; A chamber deafe of noise, and blind of light, A rosie garland and a weary hed.

Sometimes you only need to have a few words with a person to know you would like to have many more.

It's just that right now the athlete's on the floor. But we - this is a super athlete.