The team with the best players wins.

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.

Your life is the only journey, you travel unaided.

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.

When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.

I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the years I worked on the 'Sun's' enterprise reporting team.

Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.

The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.

Don't be the rider who gallops all nightand never sees the horse that is beneath him

Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

I'm not a gangsta rapper. I rap about things that happen to me. I got shot five times. People was trying to kill me.

I’d be glad to go out on a limb with those Who want nothing beyond what the wind bestows, Were I not bound to roots, dug in deep to bear Never being done grasping for light and air