People who are making decisions about the future often don't have access to some of the best ideas in the company, which may be at the periphery or at lower levels.

One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door.

Change is a threat when done to me, but an opportunity when done by me.

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.

Too many people let others stand in their way and don't go back for one more try.

The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.

The most radical thing we can do is connect people to one another. That starts conversations toward a vision for change.

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences.

I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks.

Everything looks like a failure in the middle. In neary every change project, doubt is cast on the original vision because problems are mounting and the end is nowhere in sight.

You see every day of life as a bonus once you have inner peace.

[Giving welfare to poor people] is the equivalent of the government sending [fat people] a jumbo bag of Bugles in the mail twice a month.

Every single thing you've been through in your life has had a purpose.

When newspapers are the principal vehicles of the wit and wisdom of a people, the higher graces of composition can hardly be looked for.

[Donald Trump] he has pulled off something that no one believed he could do.

Men cannot conceive of a state of things so fair that it cannot be realized.

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary.

Meet the difficult while it is easy.

Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.