Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake.

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.

Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.

True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.

The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.

If you have more than three priorities then you don't have any.

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

When your pockets are empty, go where your heart is full.

The way we relate with people is the same way we relate with God

I know have lived, so many times, that the only thing I have left to remember is my writing, cause every single moment in life it's already written.

My mother was lost to me, but I wasn’t lost. She had anchored me, to Amma, my father, Link, Gatlin, before she left. I felt her in the streets, my house, the library, even the pantry.

We are all deep in a hell each moment of which is a miracle.

Hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are.

The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.

My own recipe for world peace is a bit of land for everyone.

I think people loosely use the term 'free speech.' If the market wants to be such that people don't want to watch someone, so be it.

If environmental protection efforts continue to lag behind economic growth, pollution will become even more rampant.