Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.

Don't be interesting - be interested.

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.

Good is the enemy of great.. The vast majority of good companies remain just that - good, but not great.

We must reject the idea... Well-intentioned, but dead wrong... That the primary path to greatness in the social sectors is to become "more like a business." Most businesses... Like most of anything else in life... Fall somewhere between mediocre and good.

Level 5 leaders are a study in duality: modest and willful, humble and fearless.

It is more important to know who you are than where you are going, for where you are going will change as the world around you changes.