You have no right to be a leader if someone who works for you doesn't 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.

Only when I quit lying to myself did I discover the real beauty of my truth.

It has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.

Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

I like to make people laugh. I like that kind of silly stuff. For me, it's a natural thing to want to do something like this.

Becoming an actor is like becoming a father. It's not hard to become one. Making a life of it is the challenge.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life

I am about as detailed as a shadow.

At some point if you're a professional writer, no matter what, it always comes down to you staring at the blank page by yourself.

I think that there's a hidden darkness in all of us!