Strategy is not a lengthy action plan. It is the evolution of a central idea through continually changing circumstances.

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.

Sometimes two people have to fall apart, to realize how much they need to fall back together.

Change is fearful, but at the end it is beautiful.

Man, Sub-creator, the refracted Lightthrough whom is splintered from a single Whiteto many hues, and endlessly combinedin living shapes that move from mind to mind.

Without going to what I think is my limit. I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to win the race at the slowest speed possible.

What is necessary is never unwise.

In all fairness to Secretary [Hillary] Clinton I want you to be very happy. It's very important to me.

Space is really big-REALLY big.

Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.

Be relentless in pursuing your happiness.