In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance is everything.

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.

People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

Where you are is where it's at.... Don't ever give up & don't ever give in.

When you have won everything in your career, what's left? Why go on?

Relax, ease back in your seats and let the music take you wherever it does.

If you see the world as gloomily as I see it, the only thing to do is laugh or shoot yourself.

The birth of a doubt that was once your belief is drowning in the tears that you cry.

There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.

Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer.

My hobby is fishing for girls.