For a hot-shot CEO taking over a troubled company, mass firings are the ultimate quick fix, the accounting equivalent of crack: cheap, easy to score, instantly gratifying, and highly addictive.

Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.

The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway.

We take better care of our smartphone than ourselves. We know when the battery is depleted and recharge it

There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.

We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.

The first step toward changing the world is to change our vision of the world and of our place in it.

In life, the things that go wrong are often the very things that lead to other things going right.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

true Christians consider themselves not as satisfying some rigorous creditor, but as discharging a debt of gratitude

What we see depends mainly on what we look for

I believe that there is good in everyone, even an evil pirate such as you.

The man who let the love of his life pass him by will end up alone with his regrets and all the sighs in the world won't soothe his soul.

The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don't need them.

Where you stand should not depend on where you sit.

Making music should not be left to the professionals.

I think it is the general rule that the originator of a new idea is not the most suitable person to develop it, because his fears of something going wrong are really too strong... At age 69.

If you read three books a day you couldn't read all the poetry that's being published.