Nothing of any importance has ever been accomplished by a pessimist.

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.

I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.

Jesus was not a carpenter forever.

Eternity is today

She stopped then and turned her face toward him and the hateful wind.

Don't ever doubt yourself because there are enough people in the world that are going to doubt you.

Search fearlessly for every sin, for out of sin comes joy.

Motorists who want to save money on gas will demand and buy more fuel-efficient vehicles. We should not limit their freedom with more government regulations.

The world is truly round and seems to start and end with those we love.

I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much.

In marriage you are neither the husband nor the wife; you are the love between two.