Trust happens when leaders are transparent.

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.

A bird does not fly because of the wind around it, but because of the strength within it.

--a man without birth, without courage, without conduct. For my part, I declare, sir, it shall never be said that I made such a man my master.

We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us.

If UEFA will not embrace video technology, then we need two more officials behind the goals to help the referee.

Be of good cheer, for sadness cannot heal the national wounds.

How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting... old? If I'm... old, then what is she?

Michael Winter’s fiction is a lot like hearing him talk about his life… harrowing in an after-the-fact hilarious way. Full of wonder and mystery. A hangover you wouldn’t miss for the world.

I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.