Strategy is not a lengthy action plan. It is the evolution of a central idea through continually changing circumstances.

There is no straight line to a dream.

All of management is about self-confidence

One of the things about leadership is that you cannot be a moderate, balanced, thoughtful, careful articulator of policy. You've got to be on the lunatic fringe.

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

Take the middle 70 percent and tell them what they need to do to get into the top 20 percent.

Trust happens when leaders are transparent.