The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.

Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.

A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.

How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.

You have to understand what it is that you are better at than anybody else and mercilessly focus your efforts on it.

Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

If the brutal facts are not faced by leaders, the brutal reality sets in.

Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.

You'll be okay. No matter what shape reality takes, you can handle it.

For you to be great, you must live a life of self-consciousness all the time.

I am both honored and blessed to have had such a wonderful career with the L.A. Galaxy and I am thankful for everything the club, the fans and the community has done for me and my family.

I write poems like some people sing in the bathroom.

Because of the nature of my life, it's difficult for people to recognize that a person can live a full life, and maybe an unorthodox life, and still be on the side of the angels.

Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.

I grew up in the church, and I feel very strongly about it.

Francois Hollande is the president of the republic, he must be respected. I want to wish him good luck in the midst of these tests.

I focus on things that are the highest value and do them perfectly.

When you compete against everyone else, no one wants to help you. But when you compete against yourself, everyone wants to help you.