Genuine leadership comes from the quality of your vision and your ability to spark others to extraordinary performance.

Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.

Stretch targets energize. We have found that by reaching for what appears to be the impossible, we often actually do the impossible; and even when we don't quite make it, we inevitably wind up doing much better than we would have done.

A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be

No one is guaranteed a job in this.

The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. I don't like to use the word efficiency. It's creativity. It's a belief that every person counts.

Strategy is simply resource allocation. When you strip away all the noise, that's what it comes down to. Strategy means making clear cut choices about how to compete. You cannot be everything to everybody, no matter what the size of your business or how deep its pockets.