There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.

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.

Often in life the pleasure of the journey is only eclipsed by the ecstasy of the destination.

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

My predecessor taxed wealthy, successful people at a higher rate than ever before. And what happened? They left. And what came of it? Did unemployment drop? No.

Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]

People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.

If your sense of self is destabilised, to imagine being another becomes pretty easy.

I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.

You never get over bein' a child long's you have a mother to go to.

If you know from history the danger, then part of the danger is over because it may not take you by surprise as it did your ancestors.

Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.