You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.

You cannot learn very much about excellence from studying failure.

The secret to living a strong life is right in front of you, calling to you every day. It can be found in your emotional reaction to specific moments in your life.

Obviously, you have to know what you need now and what you will soon need, then hire or promote from within to meet those needs.

Getting after this terrible, avoidable waste of human potentiality is what gets me out of bed every morning.

You won't find a CEO who doesn't talk about a 'powerful culture' as a source of competitive advantage. At the same time, you'd be hard-pressed to find a CEO who has much of a clue about the strength of that culture.

People leave managers, not companies