Discipline is consistency of action.

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.

It's not about who you used to be, it's about who you have become.

If he ever changes his stance on something, it's because he's received new information.

Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship

I don't like long tours. I find it much easier to go out for a short spurt every month.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

Even needing to get to Angel, we couldn’t forget the basic necessity of eating.

London is like a cold dark dream sometimes.

Ignorance is servitude, because as a man thinks, so he is; a man who does not think for himself and allows himself to be guided by the thought of another is like the beast led by a halter.

I fly close to my man, aim well and then of course he falls down.

I think I am a little too old now.