You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options: adapt or die.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.

Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.

A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.

How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.

You have to understand what it is that you are better at than anybody else and mercilessly focus your efforts on it.

Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

If the brutal facts are not faced by leaders, the brutal reality sets in.

The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.

Inside of you, there is the power to change your world. Believe in good and you will find good.

Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad.

Unlike in my young days I'm not able to eat, drink and sleep tennis.

I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.

The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.

I think my writing has become "cleaner."

Just get the right syllable in the proper place.

My creative process involves reading books and magazines, writing outside, and moving around a lot. I like to pace around when I'm writing songs.

I think everyone is beautiful in their own way.

You peasant swain! You whoreson malt-horse drudge!