The most important role of managers is to create environment in which people are passionately dedicated to winning in marketplace.

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.

The meaning of life is that it ends

Ma had been very fashionable, before she married Pa, and a dressmaker had made her clothes.

Closer, it’s all right. Touch the man of grief.Do. Don’t be afraid. My troubles are mine and I am the only man alive who can sustain them.

I can't say that I pursued a career. I really didn't, it just sort of happened.

Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant.

More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot and if they count they mostly do count money.

No. I kind of accepted it, in a way. That saving you was worth losing what we might've had.

The Goddess does not shower her gifts on those who reject them.

Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.

To abandon a comfortable lifestyle that isn't deeply fulfilling is to abandon nothing.