The most important quality of leadership is intellectual honesty. The reality principle - the ability to see the world as it really is, not as you wish it were.

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.

Do not go gentle into that good night, rage, rage against the dying of the light.

I... a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.

There's a lot of controversy online, some people say i'm a genius and other say i'm hugely talented.

Worship God. It’s easier than thinking.

Anything that I can do with my voice thats good, Ill try to do.

The first printed mention of bagels... is to be found in the Community Regulations of Kracow, Poland, for the year 1610 which stated that bagels would be given as a gift to any woman in childbirth.

A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face.

I've always respected [Michael Jordan] but I've never been a fan of his [Jordan's].Because everybody else is.

I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music.