You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

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.

She is a woman, how can you confuse her for a man?

Your opposition is the most powerful tool you can use to rise up.

Man boasts of his nobility, his ideals, and his progress. Man’s goal is imitation, not redemption.

You can't take highways during the apocalypse, because they'll be packed with panicky people.

Protection is not a principle but an expedient

But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.

When a man has written a role for you that you admire, the expectations are higher.

Everyone is just as committed and focused as they were the first season.

It was at Bell Labs that I first made direct contact with real semiconductor experts and thus began to fully understand what amazing materials they were and what they could do.

Many people think they could do much better if they only had the opportunity that they don’t realize they already have.