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

You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the same time, have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.

If your company disappeared, would it leave a gaping hole that could not easily be filled by any other enterprise on the planet?

Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.

If you have more than three priorities then you don't have any.

"Growth!" is not a Hedgehog Concept. Rather, if you have the right Hedgehog Concept and make decisions relentlessly consistent with it, you will create such momentum that your main problem will not be how to grow, but how not to grow too fast.

Our findings do not represent a quick fix, or the next fashion statement in a long string of management fads, or the next buzzword of the day, or a new 'program' to introduce. No! The only way to make any company visionary is through a long-term commitment to an eternal process of building the organization to preserve the core and stimulate progress.