The only way to deliver to the people who are achieving is to not burden them with the people who are not achieving.

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.

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

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.

As the sun shines I will make hayTo keep failure at bayFor there remaineth a payFor my honest toil each day.

We're all only fragile threads but what a tapestry we make.

Inner beauty is for amateurs.

When you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn't feel like you're falling: it feels like you're floating, a bit like scuba diving.

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

Have a short memory and a lot of forgiveness. Especially us girls who don't forget a thing. Move on.

Explore. Dream. Discover.

Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one; a global idea, not a strictly American one.

I don't choose my friends based on how they treat each other, I choose them based on how they treat me.

I am also a believer in an integrated treatment approach to autism.