The hero is the one with ideas.

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.

You see, the deaf have an intimacy with silence. It’s there in their dreams.

Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.

Drink in the moon as though you might die of thirst.

I didn't know you had a cat!' she excl

I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.

What you learn after you are 40 is that it is just about plugging up holes in the boat. You just hope you have enough corks to plug enough of the holes.

You were born to overcome. You are not destined to lose.

In 1994 I bought my first tour bus. I still own it and believe it or not it's still out on the road on my tour.

Sometimes gain comes from losing, and sometimes loss comes from gaining.

No excuses. No explanations.