Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.

A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.

How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.

You have to understand what it is that you are better at than anybody else and mercilessly focus your efforts on it.

Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

If the brutal facts are not faced by leaders, the brutal reality sets in.

The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.

Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.

By taking good care of your posture now, you will enjoy and savor lifelong health benefits and beauty.

Being a pumpkinhead is great.""Your HEAD is a PUMPKIN.

A person who has never owned a dog has missed a wonderful part of life.

Don't go to the grave with life unused.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

I was working a corporate job for years and it always felt restrictive, it felt like I was doing something I wasn't supposed to be doing.

We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.

Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things.

My mother played a little bit of the old time clawhammer. She tuned the banjo up and picked one tune for me, and it just become natural to me. When she picked it, I just started and picked it, too.

In Japan, it's strange to openly take credit for giving to charity or even to donate publicly.