Take time to get to know people. Understand where they are coming from, what is important to them. Make sure they are with you.

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.

Smart thinking is to know what you think and why you think it.

To fall in love twice, with the same person, you need to grow another heart. That's all I do in my secret underground laboratory at night...

I never, in any city I've ever been in, never remember the names of streets. The longest place I ever lived in was for five years and I didn't know the name of the next street over.

Have you noticed since Global Warming took hold that all the snowmen look kind of angry?

It's just not working. One nation trying to destroy another, one race trying to destroy another, one religion trying to destroy another - It's the same old story over and over again.

People love things about Hollywood. People love to see the inside of what's going on.

That's how hatred is created: two different groups, each insisting they're on the moral high ground

A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your way.

What I love most about fatherhood is the opportunity to be a part of the development process of a new life.

Every bush can burn if you fire it with your imagination.