Leaders who led their organizations quietly and humbly, were much more effective than flashy, charismatic high profile leaders.

That good is the enemy of great is not just a business problem. It is a human problem.

Most people will look back and realize they did not have a great life because it's just so easy to settle for a good life.

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.

Level 5 leaders are fanatically driven, infected with an incurable need to produce sustained results. They are resolved to do whatever it takes to make the company great, no matter how big or hard the decisions.

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

Discipline should amplify creativity rather than stifle it.