So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.

Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.

A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.

How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.

You have to understand what it is that you are better at than anybody else and mercilessly focus your efforts on it.

Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

If the brutal facts are not faced by leaders, the brutal reality sets in.

The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.

Reject anything advice, which does not lead to your personal progress.

When the sails are strong a ship has no reason to fear turbulence.

If a machine can convincingly imitate humanity—can persuade a human being of its kinship—then what makes it inhuman? What, after all, is human thought but a series of electrical impulses?

I'm always honest, whether I'm in the limelight or not.

The Nation needs to take a new approach to our energy problems.

I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West.

Boredom is a concept that I don't understand.

I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker.

Find someone to love . . . and, oh, someone to love you.

Surfeit begets insolence, when prosperity comes to a bad man.