Discipline should amplify creativity rather than stifle it.

Focusing solely on what you can potentially do better than any other organization is the only path to greatness.

The secret to a successful retirement is to find your retirement sweet spot. The sweet spot is where your passions, what you do best, and what people will pay you to do overlap.

We must reject the idea... Well-intentioned, but dead wrong... That the primary path to greatness in the social sectors is to become "more like a business." Most businesses... Like most of anything else in life... Fall somewhere between mediocre and good.

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.

Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.

Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity...are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.