And people is the most important part of my job. I spend one third of my time on people.

Good leaders don't tell people what to do, they give teams capability and inspiration.

Managing innovation better may be the only way out of the abyss called commodity hell.

Work hard with passion and courage. Life is a marathon of contribution. You really must work hard to accomplish something... Find your passion and get good at it.

Values can't just be words on a page. To be effective, they must shape action.

The most important thing I've learned since becoming CEO is context. It's how your company fits in with the world and how you respond to it.

Seeing people in person is a big part of how you drive any change process. You have to show people a positive view of the future and say "we can do it"

Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools - but they must be kept to a minimum.

Live with passion. Live with purpose.

I was never afraid of failure. I realized that I was responsible for my own success and that every day offers a new beginning and I was confident in my ability to improve.

Every leader needs to clearly explain the top three things the organization is working on. If you can't, you are not leading well.

Loving yourself costs nothing, but not loving yourself could cost you everything.

Roman Catholicism is a broken and utterly desperate thing, capable only of malignant mischief in our awakening world.

The adults were completely wrong.

When I was coming up the DC Improv was considered the best Improv out there. It's always been high quality stuff coming out of there.

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

We wanted to enjoy what we were doing and we had business things we had to straighten out and personnel problems and it sort of took a little time to do it.

Lovely flowers have been known to grow out of trash heaps.

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets.

Free discussion is the only necessary Constitution - the only necessary Law of the Constitution.