When it's time to let someone go, do it right. No surprises. No humiliation.

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.

Everyone should keep a dream journal, did you know that?

We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give.

I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.

If you're going to draw a comic strip every day, you're going to have to draw on every experience in your life.

But the works of man are impotent against the assaults of nature . . .

It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven."

I believe one day the distance between myself and God will / disappear.

Heavy Metal is the most conservative of all loud music. Let's face it, not even a gym teacher could get as many people to dress alike.

I am not the first straight dancer or the last.

All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past.