Our job is to execute.

When someone gets a job, it better be clear what they did to get it.

Great leaders don't play by the existing rules.

The more I use a matrix, the easier I make it to blame someone else.

I just want you to be motivated by the magnitude of the opportunity.

The more accountable I can make you, the easier it is for you to show youre a great performer.

We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes.

There's a powerful tendency to overcomplicate the whole notion of leadership.

Reality is highly overrated.

I discovered surfing, which I absolutely fell in love with. That feels good and kind of keeps your body aligned, so does the salt water.

Of *course* he needs to renegotiate his salary - the guy buys more snow than Seward did when he bought Alaska from the Russians.

I would hate for people to generalize about every Haitian from something that one Haitian did, or a group of Haitians did.

We all have the ability to produce greatness in our lives.

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

The forests are held cheap after the white pine has been culled out; and the explorers and hunters pray for rain only to clear theatmosphere of smoke.

All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them.

Trace cursed. He actually wanted to hit something, but a tree would break his knuckles, he didn't want to put another dent in the truck, and Dare would hit back.

We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above; sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in moroseness and discontent.