Truly visionary and successful companies have discovered that there is no conflict between the pursuit of profit and having a pursuit beyond profit.

You cannot and should not try to please everyone. Make sure that the right people like you, and it will be expected that others will not. That's how the world works.

Truly visionary and successful companies have discovered that there is no conflict between the pursuit of profit and having a pursuit beyond profit.

Whether or not your values are operational is crucially determined by whether or not there are consequences for noncompliance.

Don't get stampeded by what people around you value. The task is to figure out what YOU value - and value highly enough to throw yourself into with unqualified passion.

More than any other factor, it is the people we have to deal with that determine the quality of our work lives.

Left untended, knowledge and skill, like all assets, depreciate in value surprisingly quickly.