Self-awareness gives you the capacity to learn from your mistakes as well as your successes. It enables you to keep growing.

Execution is the job of the business leader.

I'm just going to keep going and goind and going until I can't go anymore.

If you don't have the best people you hurt everyone.

I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.

In its most fundamental sense, execution is a systematic way of exposing reality and acting on it. Most companies don't face reality very well. ... Realism is the heart of execution, but many organizations are full of people who are trying to avoid or shade reality. Why? It makes life uncomfortable.

How people talk to each other absolutely determines how well the organization will function.