Managers can waste a lot of time at the outset of a crisis denying that something went wrong. Skip that step.

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.

Because saving the people you love isn't stupid. It isn't even a choice

Hatred is exhausting. You must constantly remind yourself why you hate someone and waste needless energy to keep hating them.Forgiveness

I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.

The only way to consistently perform at your potential is to ask: Am I better than I was yesterday?

You don't have to force anyone to Trust You they just do and give away there Heart, Soul and Body to You Only if they really Love you and Mean the world to Them

The tendency to trust easily anyone gives way to a certain vulnerability.

You pay by the hour, even if the job only takes five minutes. I don’t do fractions.

I'm passionate. I find if I really believe something, I want to put my entire being behind it.

Becoming Father the Nurturer rather than just Father the Provider enables a man to fully feel and express his humanity and his masculinity. Fathering is the most masculine thing a man can do.

I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand.