The more accountable I can make you, the easier it is for you to show youre a great performer.

When someone gets a job, it better be clear what they did to get it.

Great leaders don't play by the existing rules.

Our job is to execute.

The more I use a matrix, the easier I make it to blame someone else.

I just want you to be motivated by the magnitude of the opportunity.

We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes.

There's a powerful tendency to overcomplicate the whole notion of leadership.

Saw the sun rise. A lovely apricot sky with flames in it and then solemn pink. Heavens, how beautiful...I feel so full of love to-day after having seen the sun rise.

There is no easy way to the journey of life. Those who follow the easy road cannot fully appreciate life.

It's nice to be able to do things for other people, isn't it?That's why it's fun to talk in the third person sometimes.

We've spent now about 150 years trying to convince ourselves that photographs are reliable evidence, some unimpeachable slice of the real world. That was a myth from the very beginning.

Faith assuages, guides, restores.

A new truth is a truth, an old error is an error.

Physiognomy is often a great falsifier, though as a rule it is honest enough.

There are lines upon my face from a lifetime of smiles

You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.

From a genomic perspective, we are all Africans.