You can always buy something in English, you can't always sell something in English.

One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door.

Change is a threat when done to me, but an opportunity when done by me.

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.

Too many people let others stand in their way and don't go back for one more try.

The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.

The most radical thing we can do is connect people to one another. That starts conversations toward a vision for change.

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences.

I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks.

Everything looks like a failure in the middle. In neary every change project, doubt is cast on the original vision because problems are mounting and the end is nowhere in sight.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Some women have kissed—and some are kissing—a lot of frogs, even though the very first man that they have each kissed was and is still a prince.

Do you work for the government, any government?”"I pay taxes, which means I work for the government, part of the time. Yes.

she died of internal weeping

An unused conscience is no conscience at all.

I want to die young at a ripe old age.

A wise soul once declared that the ultimate power of the writer is that he has the choice of whom he wants to be co-opted by.

Activity is the only road to knowledge.

Food is a passion because I basically grew up in a kitchen.

Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established.