No company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.

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.

Surround yourself with people who can help you grow into the person you want to become.

The best thing you can give to a child is to create an environment where the child can develop an independent mind so that he will be the man of no one and the instrument of no system!

Now that’s true poetic irony. I rush into battle to defend the fair name of Rose Larkin, and what does she do but fetch Robert to stop me.

We are members of one great body, planted by nature…. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole

I think that Governor Romney operates on the capital gains tax, his investments, what he lives off of instead of doing it off of his income.

I came into adult life equipped with an essentially romantic ethic.

Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due.

Fear and pain and suffering is not OK for any being to feel intentionally at the hands of us.

I've always got the road. Stand-up makes you so autonomous and self-sufficient that it really helps with that part of show business.

The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.