One of the ways we'll know that Work-Out has been successful is that my style of leadership will no longer be tolerated in this company.

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.

Remember that life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away!

There are songs that make you cry, right?""Sure, " I say."When you're dead, everything in the world is like a song that makes you cry.

I think that I do separate myself a fair amount. And I don't feel like I am representing women. That's up to however people interpret it once they sort of see it.

We should get rid of the SAT as fast as we can. Look, there are bigger problems in society. This is not the biggest problem we have. But it's so easy to get rid of it. Right? Just pull the plug.

I was 12 when I started and 34 before I achieved my dream, that should give people hope.

Donald Trump has taken the Peter Principle to unprecedented heights. Or is it depths?

I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation.

If it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority of rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it.

Knowledge is the eye which must direct the foot of obedience.

...the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.