One of the things about leadership is that you cannot be a moderate, balanced, thoughtful, careful articulator of policy. You've got to be on the lunatic fringe.

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.

When you can live forever what do you live for?

Your body is a sacred-temple of God.

Life is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be.

The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.

I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing

Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.

I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil.

Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.

One of the many sad results of the Industrial Revolution was that we came to depend more than ever on the intellect, and to ignore the intuition with its symbolic thinking.

I want to look at my audience and see all walks of life. I want to do something for everybody.