Genuine leadership comes from the quality of your vision and your ability to spark others to extraordinary performance.

I might not be the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but I'm pretty good at getting most of the other bulbs to light up.

Be candid with everyone.

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

Change before you have to.

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world.

Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy . . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products.

If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

The single most sacred pilgrimage you will ever make is the one right where you are.

God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.

The creatures I seek do not want to be seen.

As a director, you have to go in with a really, really, really clear picture of what you want. That's the point of my commentaries. It's so difficult because you're the harshest critic.

The lessons I learned in Sunday School have kept me on track

Perspective will come in retrospect.

There are no innocents in Gaza, don't let any diplomats who want to look good in the world endanger your lives - mow them down!

Magic: The Gathering, Gossamer Phantom. I asked him, 'Do you believe it's real?' He almost started crying and said, 'Yes, I do think it's real' and I said, 'Then that's all that matters.'

True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters.

Buy companies with strong histories of profitability and with a dominant business franchise.