When it comes to strategy, ponder less and do more.

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.

now i am oldolder enough to have known the worldand i am sad

His view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent

You can go on losing after loss.

One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'.

A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.

I think all art is subjective - that whoever's watching it or listening to it will decide whether it's good or bad.

Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming.

It is pleasing to the dear God whenever thou rejoicest or laughest from the bottom of thy heart.

Becoming a victim is your choice.

What is it about a zombie that appeals to me? I don't know. Maybe that it's just the most possible - I don't know - of all the supernatural entities.