In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.

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.

Nothing in my life would mean anything if you weren't here to share it. There'd be no reason to get up in the morning without you to light the sun with your smile.

But words in a book were one thing. The true test came in battle.

...that human hunger birthed the Civ'lize, but human hunger killed it too.

New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

When you say "I love you", I expect you to prove it.

The evil is not that you cannot change human nature. The evil is that human nature cannot change you.

As soon as it is held that any belief, no matter what, is important for some other reason than that it is true, a whole host of evils is ready to spring up.

I've been grateful for what comes along.

In a novel, the only budgetary limitations are that of your imagination.

I have been instrumental in banning bottled water on the set. It hasn't gone that well with the crew... so I replaced it with tequila.