Get keep right people.

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.

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

If I'm going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.

For no matter what we achieve, if we don't spend the vast majority of our time with people we love and respect, we cannot possibly have a great life. But if we spend the vast majority of our time with people we love and respect - people we really enjoy being on the bus with and who will never disappoint us - then we will almost certainly have a great life, no matter where the bus goes. The people we interviewed from the good-to-great companies clearly loved what they did, largely because they loved who they did it with.

The only way to remain great is to keep on applying the fundamental principles that made you great.

The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.