Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.

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.

They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.

Never test another man by your own weakness.

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.

Communicating is a bit of a problem. Playing in New York is great but there are times when I feel a long way from home.

When I leap, I briefly see the world as it is and as it should be.

The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.

A painting works only on the edge of not working. Then what is ungraspable comes near.

Government will no longer be run on the whims of individuals.

It doesn't matter how old people are. It matters if they love each other and have fun with each other. It has nothing to do with age. To get old is a mental disease. Everything is in the head.

Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.