If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.

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.

Turning back against your responsibilityas a father is the most spineless thing you can do.

Eden is that old-fashioned House We dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode Until we drive away.

I'm a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else

Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy.

I will never stop working on Spanish-language projects because that's my language, and because I'm a Latina and Mexican before anything else.

The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.

I've gone through managers like people go through shredded wheat. Nobody looks after you.

We have become so obsessed by numbers and by bottom lines that beauty and truth has been knocked aside.

I'm totally monogamous when I'm in a relationship, and when I'm not in a relationship, I don't sleep around. So when I'm not with someone, I'm really on my own.