The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.

Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.

The most important thing you can learn as CEO- one of the hardest things to do is, you have to discipline yourself to see your company... through the eyes of the people that you're working through. Through the eyes of the employees, through the eyes of your partners... through the eyes of the people who you're not talking to and who are not in the room.

Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.

The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.

I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It's hard to memorize objectives, but it's easy to remember a story.

Your employees know each other better than they know you.