Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome.

One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door.

Change is a threat when done to me, but an opportunity when done by me.

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.

Too many people let others stand in their way and don't go back for one more try.

The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.

The most radical thing we can do is connect people to one another. That starts conversations toward a vision for change.

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences.

I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks.

Everything looks like a failure in the middle. In neary every change project, doubt is cast on the original vision because problems are mounting and the end is nowhere in sight.

I did not need him to survive. He inspired me to find that strength in myself.

I knew that (job) had to be a humbling role for my dad, but he never allowed it to become humiliating work.

[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help.

Life is short, yet sweet.

Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.

There is certainly a satisfaction and dignity to be gained in coming to terms with the mistakes one has made in the course of one’s life

Nothing in the Shastras, which is capable of being reasoned, can stand if it is in conflict with reason.

If we are to flourish as creative beings, if we are to grow into wholeness, we must bloom wherever we are planted.

Yesterday, my eyeglass prescription ran out.

The one common denominator of all successful people is their hunger to push through their fears.