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

If you have a charismatic cause you don't need to be a charismatic leader.

Be rigorous about your HR decisions. There is a difference between rigorous and ruthless.

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.

If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are the means, not the definition, of a great nation.

Some managers are uncomfotable with expressing emotion about their dreams, but it's the passion and emotion that will attract and motivate others.

The main point is first get the right people on the bus (and wrong people off the bus) before you figure out where to drive it. The second key point is the degree of sheer rigor in people decisions in order to take a company from Good to Great.