That's all managing is: just coming up with the right questions and getting the right answers.

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.

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

...[P]hysics... [is] the philosophy of nature, so far as it is based on empirical laws.

We ought to be silent and listen to the voice of God.

love is like allopathic medicine...it gives happy very soon but it's side effects are so painful...

The doctors are always changing their opinions. They always have some new fad.

There are few secrets in football. So execute.

Things are so much global and Americanised.

I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection.

I met my father for the first time when I was 28 years old. I made up my mind that when I had children, my children were going to know who their father was.