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.

I've never found an important decision made by a great organization that was made at a point of unanimity. Significant decisions carry risks and inevitably some will oppose it. In these settings, the great legislative leader must be artful in handling uncomfortable decisions, and this requires rigor.

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.

The only way to deliver to the people who are achieving is to not burden them with the people who are not achieving.

People need BHAGs - big hairy audacious goals.

If you have more than three priorities then you don't have any.

Faith in the endgame helps you live through the months or years of buildup.