Those fortunate enough to find or create a practical intersection of the three circles have the basis for a great work life.

Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake.

For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work.

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.

A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable. A visionary company doesn't simply balance between preserving a tightly held core ideology and stimulating vigorous change and movement; it does both to an extreme.

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

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