"Growth!" is not a Hedgehog Concept. Rather, if you have the right Hedgehog Concept and make decisions relentlessly consistent with it, you will create such momentum that your main problem will not be how to grow, but how not to grow too fast.

Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.

Genuine confidence is what launches you out of bed in the morning, and through your day with a spring in your step.

Just because a company falls doesn't invalidate what we can learn by studying that company when it was at its historical best.

People are not your most important asset....the right people are.

Some managers are uncomfotable with expressing emotion about their dreams, but it's the passion and emotion that will attract and motivate others.

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.