Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.

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.

Contrary to popular belief, going shopping is really about stopping afterward for cheesecake.

Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music.

I think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still have my doubts.

The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain than for apparent exceptions.

Gonna travel, gonna travel wild and free I'm gonna pack my bags because this great big world is calling me

A sensation must have fallen very low to deign to turn into an idea.

I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.

I just don't want to be the damsel in distress. I'll scream on the balcony, but you've got to let me do a little action here.

For me exotic means beaches, palm trees and sand and frolicking in the ocean

Jesus Christ can afford to be misunderstood; we cannot. Our weakness lies in always wanting to vindicate ourselves.