People need BHAGs - big hairy audacious goals.

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.

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

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

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.

Be rigorous about your HR decisions. There is a difference between rigorous and ruthless.

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.