Getting every employee's mind into the game is a huge part of what a CEO job is all about. Taking everyone's best ideas and transferring them to others is the secret. There's nothing more important.

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.

Every human is unique every spirit is engaging.

Not even you can reach me here, Carmen thought.

Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.

The glue that holds all relationships together ... is trust, and trust is based on integrity.

I'm very open with my business partners, just like I am with my husband.

Art is not to do with the practical side of making a living. It's to live a fuller human life.

The only freedom is the freedom from the known.

Never give up an old tried friend, who has waded through all manner of toil, for your sake, and throw him away because fools may tell you he has some faults.

You know, I don't ask myself too much how. I just do it.

The piles of makeup and the insistence on frills and ribbons and bows was not at all attuned to my feminist views.