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.

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.

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.

Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.

Most great products have been made over the dead bodies of experts.

No, actually I'm trying to stay away from the big screen.

"American Idol" has done a lot for me. It's a stepping stone in my life.

Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness or hypocrisy.

The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there completely

To-day, to-day, be wise, be wise.

Do not forget, some give little, and it is much for them, others give all, and it costs them no effort; who then has given most?

I get to know my regular fans, and they inspire me.

It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man, however dignified by the applause or enriched by the success of popular actions.

Trying to say something is all you got in life.