You can't believe how hard it is for people to be simple, how much they fear being simple. They worry that if they're simple, people will think they're simpleminded. In reality, of course, it's just the reverse. Clear, tough-minded people are the most simple.

The Internet is the Viagra of big business.

A leader's role is not to control people or stay on top of things, but rather to guide, energize and excite.

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

The idea of let's all share the pain equally, or let's freeze salaries altogether - it's ass-backwards. It's absolutely ass-backwards.

When there's change, there's opportunity.

You can't behave in a calm, rational manner. You've got to be out there on the lunatic fringe.