The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.

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.

There is more than one kind of freedom, " said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.

The only reality is the now. Why live in the tomorrows and the yesterdays? Live now.

Be truthful.Be presentable.Be tactical.Be profitable.

Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.

This is the wonderful thing about the pure in heart--they do see God.

The reason why I play around with the word legend is because this is my 7th CD and a lot of artists don't even make it that far. Many artists don't even pass three or four.

There are so many colors in the rainbow So many colors in the morning sun So many colors in the flower and I see every one.

I think it's about time we gave up religion and got back to God.

You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.

There's nothing wrong with the Little League World Series that locking out the adults couldn't cure.