Power stems from 'rainmaking,' as law firms put it: the ability to bring resources into the company.

One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door.

Change is a threat when done to me, but an opportunity when done by me.

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.

Too many people let others stand in their way and don't go back for one more try.

The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.

The most radical thing we can do is connect people to one another. That starts conversations toward a vision for change.

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences.

I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks.

Everything looks like a failure in the middle. In neary every change project, doubt is cast on the original vision because problems are mounting and the end is nowhere in sight.

The future is trapped in a cage opened only by the key of genius.

…nothing remained but loneliness and grief…

Don't permit negative minds and things to distract you from your happiness. Your life doesn't deserve to miss any moment of it.

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.

John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as running mate is the towering example of his poor judgment. Palins ignorance of public affairs is monumental.

'As I am, so are these. As are these, so am I.' Drawing the parallel to yourself, neither kill nor get others to kill.

Love can be begged, bought, or received as a gift, one can find it in the street, but one cannot steal it.

The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods

The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.

It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.