When you were made a leader you weren't given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.

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.

If it is worthy doing, it worth doing so well.

Live each day with great love, hope and faith.

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

I'm not afraid of anything other than spiritual annihilation. Where your soul is sucked into the void.

A people that has licked a more formidable enemy than Germany or Japan, primitive North America . . . a country whose national motto has been "root, hog, or die."

Wherever there's light, there's bugs.

The most important thing to remember about food labels is that you should avoid foods that have labels.

I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.

Small things have a way of overmastering the great. This small press can destroy a kingdom.

All writing is ultimately a question of solving a problem.