Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

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.

Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.

Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt.

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.

You have to believe in magic to see it.

Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.

The word of God is always most precious to the man who most lives upon it.

Nobody believes in me more than me.

I'm the most recognised and loved man that ever lived

leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.

Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.

The whitewashing of windows can provide very effective protection against fire resulting from the heat-flash from nuclear explosions.