You can't behave in a calm, rational manner. You've got to be out there on the lunatic fringe.

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.

I want to be just like Steph when I grow up.

The evil works from a bad center both ways. It demoralizes those who practice it and destroys the faith of those who suffer by it in the efficiency of the law as a safe protector

No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance.

Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do.

I don't really have a certain format that I go by.

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over

So you can't dance? Not at all? Not even one step? How can you say that you've taken any trouble to live when you won't even dance?

To the sick, while there is life there is hope. [Lat., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.]

Nobody wants to have in their CV in the upper echelons of the American economic family that they nationalised major banks.

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.