The binders, the charts, the grids may seem formidable, but the meetings themselves are built around informality, trust, emotion and humor.

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 amount of therapy can replace the joy of revenge writing.

Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.

A marriage is not primarily a duet but a holy trio.

You make the money in movies and TV so you can do theater. I do a play a year... somewhere.

With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts.

Nothing is rarer than real goodness.

Sometimes my backswing gets long, and I get in bad positions. The club also can get behind me coming down, so I have to flip my hands to catch up to my body.

We basically created a computational unit out of two brains.

We wont develop until we accept that reading is a vital necessity.

Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable.