Just because a company falls doesn't invalidate what we can learn by studying that company when it was at its historical best.

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.

Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.

True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.

The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.

If you have more than three priorities then you don't have any.

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

Still, beauty can mask deadly danger.

Watch your back. Ain't a thing in armor worth trustin' out there.

But how a game plan came to be, what a finished plan looked like, I had no idea. I’d heard that all copies were shredded as soon as the game was over.

Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.

When they call you a saint, it means basically that you are not to be taken seriously.

My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it

Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.

We must know when to move on. To search too long for perfection can also paralyse.

Gardens are our link with the divine.