Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.

Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.

True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.

The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.

If you have more than three priorities then you don't have any.

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

On life’s journey, every person met, every place, every new word, language, scent & sound changes the traveller a little: forms who they are and whom they become

Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying shut the door and talk to God in secret.

Faith is the wors curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

True generosity means accepting ingratitude.

God loved me before I actually was.

Life is simple. Life is not complicated. Life is only one thing: Identify yourself.

Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.

Well, the way I see it, there are three possibilities: One, you stole it; two, you stole it; or three, you stole it!