Whatever success we have had in maintaining our culture has been instrumental in Intel's success in surviving strategic inflection points.

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.

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

I wondered if my smile was as big as hers. Maybe as big. But not as beautiful.

There is a document in every novel in the world. Even in the most fantastic novel, even in science fiction, there is a documentary side. But, this side is not the crux of the matter.

Do not bring me your successes; they weaken me. Bring me your problems; they strengthen me.

My Brain and My Heart are my Temples. My true Religion is Kindness.

Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.

The generation that has the greatest access to knowledge in the history of mankind is the one that cares the least about it.

You can inherit male-pattern baldness from your mother's father, but not a tendency to fight in the First World War.

In all countries, most of the time, official spokesman and official liar are the same thing!

Slowly but surely, the U.S. military is being converted into a global oil-protection service.

Mary heard God's word and kept it, and so she is blessed. She kept God's truth in her mind, a nobler thing than carrying his body in her womb.