The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.

Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.

True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.

If you have more than three priorities then you don't have any.

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.

You have a... remarkable memory.""I remember everything about you. You're the one who wasn't paying attention.

Always see the positive aspect of every situation you find yourself

One day I decided that existing simply did not work for me, and that was when I began to live.

Everyone is going to binge on a diet, for instance, so plan for it, schedule it, and contain the damage.

People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it's easy to be chewed up and spat out. You've got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it.

Suffering may be someones fault or it may not be anyones fault. But if given to God, our suffering becomes an opportunity to experience the power of God at work in our lives and to give glory to Him.

We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires.

Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject

[In 2011] What Steve Jobs did was simply make everything and everyone better.

We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun. You just got on with it!