I was glad I liked chemistry.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.

Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.

A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.

How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.

You have to understand what it is that you are better at than anybody else and mercilessly focus your efforts on it.

Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

If the brutal facts are not faced by leaders, the brutal reality sets in.

The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.

I'm fine. Well, I'm not fine - I'm here.""Is there something wrong with that?""Absolutely.

Your boyfriend smells bad, says Sarah as she sniffs the armpit of the giant sweatshirt.All boys smell bad I say and she nods her head like we have just figured out something very important.

These were innocent people, so innocent that they thought poverty a crime that wealth would allow them to forget. --- from the notebooks of Celal Salik

There are few second chances when it comes to establishing your leadership legacy.

One moment of true forgiveness can erase years of guilt, pain, or fear.

Grace flows through wounds.

Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort.

I am not an encore, not a pudding, I am the main dish.

Today's reports confirm that, unfortunately, post-crisis America is still not back to its good economic self.

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.