The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders - people who not only have enormous amounts of energy, but who can energize those whom they lead.

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.

Sometimes all a country needs is an entire collapse for a new beginning!

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

I would have changed my last name if being famous were my goal.

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

Color is nothing, anywhere. Civilized condition differences men, all over the globe.

Time and again we have learned that the best way to achieve growth and create jobs is for hardworking people to keep more of their own money in their own pockets.

Ooh good I've got syphilis, the BEST of the sexually transmitted diseases.

I have to be able to see the thing that's going on that I'm writing about, or else it just doesn't make any sense to me.

The hopeless don't revolt, because revolution is an act of hope.

The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.