With leadership the question at the beginning of the day is, 'how far can we take this...how big can we grow it...and how fast can we get there?'

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.

While there are things about which one does not boast, there are others for which to be pitied would be all too humiliating.

It can be made only when one recognizes the ground of being itself, when one recognizes directly that One is All.

Where [Albert Camus] is in exile isn't especially in Paris or elsewhere, but from the intellectual world, because of his origins.

I am usually protective of my work, not showing it to anyone until it has been redrafted and polished.

Athletes have a certain stubbornness that carries us through and makes us do things that people say we can't do.

We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.

Craziness in a shoe is great - you can have much more freedom, you can exaggerate and it doesn't feel stupid. But to have too much craziness near your face, that would just feel weird.

I definitely think that fashion is a form of art and love that people can express themselves through what they wear.

You could never in a million years have told me Prince would not be here today.

I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.