You never know how diverse your career can be. I think it's wonderful. My life has always been the next page, not the last page.

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.

We stand somewhere between the mountain and the ant.

I don’t know what makes people start wanting each other any more than I know what makes it stop all of a sudden. I just know that when you lose it once, you’ll never take it for granted again

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

I come from a very sporting family and played many sports as a lad.

We dance to reclaim our brilliant ability to disappear in something bigger, something safe, a space without a critic or a judge or an analyst.

I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming.

Traversing a slow page, to come upon a lode of the pure shining metal is to exult inwardly for greedy hours.

I think we have such a crown jewel in the forgiveness of God, and it changes people's lives.

Mom and Dad had a lot to answer for, she decided. She couldn’t even be rude to evil vampires who’d caged her boyfriend and were preparing to roast him alive.

I did not, I could not and I will never invite Obote, ... This is because Obote is someone who made a lot of mistakes in our history.