Creative leadership impact increases in your 50's. When I turn 50 I want to say, "Nice start!"

Profit is like oxygen, food, water, and blood for the body; they are not the point of life, but without them, there is no life.

There is a sense of exhilaration that comes from facing head-on the hard truths and saying, "We will never give up. We will never capitulate. It might take a long time, but we will find a way to prevail."

Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.

A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable.

I don't know where we should take this company, but I do know that if I start with the right people, ask them the right questions, and engage them in vigorous debate, we will find a way to make this company great.

A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable. A visionary company doesn't simply balance between preserving a tightly held core ideology and stimulating vigorous change and movement; it does both to an extreme.