Control your own destiny or someone else will.
Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
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.
Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.
If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.
Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.
You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.
I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.
I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
The team with the best players wins.
Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.
Be candid with everyone.
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.
