The biggest opportunity for big companies has come by far in the digitization of internal processes.

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.

I'd rather reminisce about old memories I had with true people than record the moments I have with fake people

The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product.

It's nice to know that there are several different avenues I could pursue.

But solitude is sadness.' 'Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper than melancholy lies heart-break.

Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic.

If the prudence of reserve and decorum dictates silence in some circumstances, in others prudence of a higher order may justify us in speaking our thoughts.

I am far from sure when I am acting and when I am not or, should I more frankly put it, when I am lying and when I am not. For what is acting but lying and what is good acting but convincing lying?

No sane black man really wants integration! No sane white man really wants integration!

The musquetos continue to infest us in such manner that we can scarcely exist. My dog even howls with the torture he experiences.

Where I get my energy is: 'How can I make it better'?