It is better to act too quickly than it is to wait too long.

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.

Probably no invention came more easily to man than Heaven.

You know who you are and what you are capable of, because of your own personal history and the experiences you gained throughout that history.

Anonymity beats fame. One cannot undo fame.

I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley.

Love makes a spot beautiful: who chooses not to dwell in love, has he got wisdom?

Racing does to white guys what movies do to black guys.

If you go back and look at President Reagan's speeches, they bring you to tears almost.

One reason I won't compromise is because I believe honesty helps you win over the long haul. You can win a game tomorrow and lose a team. You can lose a game tomorrow and win a football team.

But monsters, I now know, come in all shapes and sizes, and only their appetite for human flesh defines them.