Keep learning; don't be arrogant by assuming that you know it all, that you have a monopoly on the truth; always assume that you can learn something from someone else.

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.

Life is a form of continuous sufferings and lies.

It is quite unfortunate when you think about the amount of money some people spend unnecessarily just to be labeled as being "important" or "relevant" in the public eye.

Que pour les malheureux l'heure lentement fuit! How slowly the hours pass to the unhappy.

Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.

I'm not an economist, and I'm not a proponent of shock therapy.

Every path, every street in the world is your walking meditation path.

I don't believe in reincarnation. That's a cop-out, I know. I don't really want to be reincarnated.

There are hazards in everything one does, but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.

I feel healthy! I feel happy! I feel terrific!

Man tries to swallow meaning whole as a dog would eat his dinner.