The future is going to take care of itself, like it always has.

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.

Observing the wizard’s high magic was his biggest privilege as Kadmeion’s assistant.

Might as well try to drink the ocean with a spoon as argue with a lover.

The young must not scoff at the old, for flowers don’t bloom forever

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

... it's possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.

What music appeals to in us it is difficult to know; what we do know is that music reaches a zone so deep that madness itself cannot penetrate there.

Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory.

The "Dazed" fans are the best! "Dazed" fans never even want an autograph or nothin'.

I was just trying to get his attention!" the man protested at the top of his lungs. "If he'da listened, I wouldn'ta had to bash him.

General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.