The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.

Greatest danger is not failure, but be successful and not know why.

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

If I were running a company today, I would have one priority above all others: to acquire as many of the best people as I could. I'd put off everything else to fill my bus. Because things are going to come back. My flywheel is going to start to turn. And the single biggest constraint on the success of my organization is the ability to get and to hang on to enough of the right people.

In a truly great company profits and cash flow become like blood and water to a healthy body: They are absolutely essential for life but they are not the very point of life

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

Focusing solely on what you can potentially do better than any other organization is the only path to greatness.