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

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

It occurs to me,Jim,that you spend too much time trying to be interesting. Why don't you invest more time being interested?" Collin's advice from John Gardner that he took to heart.

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.

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

A dream is a feeling that sticks - and propels.

Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.