There is no straight line to a dream.

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.

The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye)...

Change your ways when fear seizes, " he had said, "for it usually means you are doing something wrong.

She taught me that the nighttime, Is when the stars tend to thrive.

A great deal of thought is only a substitute for the thoughts that the individual would really find useful at the time.

A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.

Technology breeds crime and we are constantly trying to develop technology to stay one step ahead of the person trying to use it negatively.

And realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience. Time and events allow for change on both sides.

I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle.

I bought my brother some gift-wrap for Christmas. I took it to the gift wrap department and told them to wrap it, but in a different print so he would know when to stop unwrapping.

I often read nonfiction, and some of my ideas begin there.