Get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats...

Level 5 leaders are differentiated from other levels of leaders in that they have a wonderful blend of personal humility combined with extraordinary professional will. Understand that they are very ambitious; but their ambition, first and foremost, is for the company's success. They realize that the most important step they must make to become a Level 5 leader is to subjugate their ego to the company's performance. When asked for interviews, these leaders will agree only if it's about the company and not about them.

If I'm going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.

Look, I don't really know where we should take this bus. But I know this much: If we get the right people on the bus, the right people in the right seats, and the wrong people off the bus, then we'll figure out how to take it someplace great.

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

The only way to remain great is to keep on applying the fundamental principles that made you great.

Discipline is consistency of action.