We need to reexamine and reassess the purpose of the corporation, and go back to the idea that senior leadership has responsibilities not just to shareholders but also to customers and employees.

Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.

Successful organizations understand the importance of implementation, not just strategy, and, moreover, recognize the crucial role of their people in this process.

Knowledge is only useful if you do something with it.

You are more likely to acquire power by narrowing your focus and applying your energies, like the sun's rays, to a limited range of activities in a small number of domains.

You can't be normal and expect abnormal returns.

Point at solutions instead of at each other.

The best path to power combines two things: 1) a path that not many are taking and 2) something that you are capable and comfortable with doing.

Most organisations say they want creativity, but really they do not.

My overall recommendation: for decades corporate policy manuals and HR departments have told people they are responsible for their own careers. It's about time people really heeded those warnings.

We give up and don't try. We don't take sufficient chances or risks. We aren't resilient in the face of failure. We follow the "rules" too much and don't push the envelope.

When death speaks to me, it speaks only of the beauty of life.

The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill.

We define content very broadly. Representing chefs, designers, makeup artists - it's all important.

EDGE WINS! EDGE WINS! EDGE WINS!

He was like a child with haemophilia: every contact drew blood.

It is better for me to die in behalf of Jesus Christ, than to reign over all the ends of the earth.

The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.

I had a little teddy bear called Gordon the gopher. I took him to bed with me, he'd come to school with me cos he was my favourite.

The way to reason with a predator is to make it aware that it can live in a cage, or it can die, but it can no longer prey upon us.

Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.