Good-to-great companies set their goals and strategies based on understanding; comparison companies set their goals and strategies based on bravado.

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.

Bring something incomprehensible into the world!

But what if Oscar—” “Breathes fire and threatens to cook you over a grill?” “I was thinking what if he gets mad, but I think your way works as well.” “Then you shall make for a tasty meal.

The more you try to crush your nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.

Because there is a word for perfection, people will always imagine that they know it.

I love things that have a vintage feel to them, just because there's a certain texture to them that we just don't have anymore. In fact I think I've been stuck in the 50s or 60s for a while...

I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.

I get overwhelmed when I approach things intellectually.

You look a certain way because you want people to listen to you in a certain way.

What are more delightful than one's emotions when approaching a trout stream for the initial cast?

The bigger story here is that the fabric of the Net has changed; it’s a place for people to connect up around shared interests and then collaborate towards some sort of action.