Protecting underperformers always backfires.

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.

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.

As I stood on the lonely backroad, I'm sure I heard birds, kookaburras, laughing ...

Using social media to hurt and destroy is callous, acted out by cowards hiding behind computers. My advice is to ignore negativity. Focus on the love around.

But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.

The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know how to behave himself, so as not to appear to be a fool or a coxcomb.

I have a well-documented history of trouble with intimacy.

Because you want to keep an air of calm and cool.

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?

In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.