What business could be mature when you have economies with more than 2 billion people in India, China and Southeast Asia?

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.

Love is the source of all creation

So? I know damn well that I didn’t poison her.”Veronica Lane, M.D., Treating Murder

I'm tryin' to think, but nothin' happens!

Thou cannot stir a flower Without troubling a star.

Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.

We are afraid of losing what we have.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Prayer is not conquering God's reluctance, but taking hold of God's willingness.

He has lost his left arm, but I my right.

If we can change our priorities, achieve balance and understanding in our roles as human beings in a complex world, the coming era can well be that of a richer civilization, not its end.

I was the kid who was drawing on tables or removing the legs of furniture.