The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

In a truly great company profits and cash flow become like blood and water to a healthy body: They are absolutely essential for life but they are not the very point of life

Smart people instinctively understand the dangers of entrusting our future to self-serving leaders who use our institutions, whether in the corporate or social sectors, to advance their own interests.

People are not your most important asset....the right people are.

Those fortunate enough to find or create a practical intersection of the three circles have the basis for a great work life.

Greatest danger is not failure, but be successful and not know why.

Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.