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

Change your practices without abandoning your core values.

The best CEOs in our research display tremendous ambition for their company combined with the stoic will to do whatever it takes, no matter how brutal (within the bounds of the company's core values), to make the company great. Yet at the same time they display a remarkable humility about themselves, ascribing much of their own success to luck, discipline and preparation rather than personal genius.

Profit is like oxygen, food, water, and blood for the body; they are not the point of life, but without them, there is no life.

Greatest danger is not failure, but be successful and not know why.

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

Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.