Set stretch goals. Don't ever settle for mediocrity. The key to stretch is to reach for more than you think is possible. Don't sell yourself short by thinking that you'll fail.

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.

Eating should be an act of physical necessity or emotional joy, not something to alleviate boredom.

A society with values, is a rich society.

Each of us makes his own weather determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.

Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny it is the political defense of women hating.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

The Crime, from us, is hidden, [though] he is presumed to know.

I say things that contradict each other, that are in real tension with each other, that compose me, that make me live, and that will make me die.

The Government's mission is to build a strong and fair Australia capable of meeting the new challenges of the 21st century.

I still appreciate individuality. Style is much more interesting than fashion, really.

The mind is one of Allah's best designs.