No vision is worth the paper it's printed on unless it is communicated constantly and reinforced with rewards.

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.

The passion I feel for you is more than you’re prepared for. - Eric

Feelings are not as uncomfortable to experience as they are to express.

There is no fashion for the old.

Something that's such a joy in my life every day - cooking - is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world.

When you do a rewrite, it's really about serving the director's vision, and what the director needs to go into that script.

God is the word that speaks itself.

In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law.

The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.

I definitely feel that we cannot do the fantastic things based on the real, unless we first know the real.

The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.