On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world.

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.

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.

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

The unconscious mind is a vast repository of experiences and associations that sorts things out much faster than the slow-moving conscious mind.

Being strong is not just about your physical strength, no, it is about your capacity to handle difficult problem with ease.

You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.

You're 28, why are you going to goth clubs? Do what I do, sit at home & wait to die. You don't have to kill yourself, you're just waiting.

And if you're not buying my dinnner or you think you fancy, you're not getting a date with The Miz!

But what difference does it make? ... When you're mixed, you see how absurd this business of race is.

The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted.

If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.

I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.