In life, everybody faces choices between doing what's popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what's lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.

The one thing with stress is, you've got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.

It's hard in daily life. It's even harder in management because it's the stress of the moment.

The person they're working with, is going to be the person they'll know more. So if that person leaves, they're going to go - well, should have I left too? What did they get and how does that compare to my deal.

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

A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.

In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.