A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable.

Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.

Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.

If you have more than three priorities then you don't have any.

Whether you prevail or fail depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.

Consider the idea that charisma can be as much a liability as an asset. Your strength of personality can sow the seeds of problems, when people filter the brutal facts from you.

I've never found an important decision made by a great organization that was made at a point of unanimity. Significant decisions carry risks and inevitably some will oppose it. In these settings, the great legislative leader must be artful in handling uncomfortable decisions, and this requires rigor.