Don't be interesting - be interested.

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

It's what you do before you are in trouble, so that you can be strong when people most need you.

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

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.

The drive for progress doesn't wait for the external world to say "It's time to change."

Good-to-great companies set their goals and strategies based on understanding; comparison companies set their goals and strategies based on bravado.