Lack of candor blocks smart ideas, fast action, and good people contributing all the stuff they've got. It's a killer.

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.

She lived in fear of ifonic endings. (91)

I write the right. I do the left.

I love the sassy skinnies; that's what I usually wear.

Without science, there would be no such hope.

If you're alive, make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death.

I was taught to be anti-Jewish.

Dolgan: ’Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when ‘tis achieved. Rhuagh: True. And still wiser to know when it is unachievable, for then striving is folly.

Meditation on the chance which led to the meeting of my mother and father is even more salutary than meditation on death.

Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.

I've always tried to learn from the greats: Orson Welles, Humphrey Bogart, Ghandi, Buddha, Jesus... it's just that there's this tremendous pressure to correct all the things they got wrong.