You are not a leader to win a popularity contest-you are a leader to lead.

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.

Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.

Remember: the universe neither judges, nor interprets, nor second guesses your will. If it did, there would be no poverty, no hunger, no suffering.

She is mine.' Edward’s low voice was suddenly dark, not as composed as before. 'I didn’t say I would fight fair.

He who runs with the platypus is no more a man than he who swallows chesnuts

To master fear is the most important battle to win.

I am always going to have problems with the paparazzi. I have had two men outside my house for the last two years, which is frightening at times, but that is my life unfortunately.

If you get something for nothing, part of you may be pleased, but part of you moves your hand to give something back.

But anyone who thinks themselves genuinely unbiased is bound to be taken in.

Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free.

A standing army is a standing menace to liberty.