A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.

Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.

True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.

The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.

If you have more than three priorities then you don't have any.

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

There are books showing men how to succeed in everything they are written by men who cannot even succeed in writing books.

Nothing can resist a person who is nonresistant... When you overcome negative with positive...hate with love... Evil with good. You've turn a loss to a win... You have become profound.

Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.

Lust is easy. Love is hard. Life is most important.

Businessmen are notable for a peculiarly stalwart character, which enables them to enjoy without loss of self-reliance the benefits of tariffs, franchises, and even outright government subsidies.

Gospel isn't some ditty to make people enjoy their afternoon - it's communicating with God.

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.

I'm the same kind of guy before all this happened.

Don’t stretch yourself too much with a mortgage. Buy within your means. It’s not worth the sleepless nights.