Successful leaders don't start out asking, 'What do I want to do?' They ask, 'What needs to be done?' Then they ask, 'Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?'

Most innovators are successful to the extent to which they define risks and confine them.

Elephants have a hard time adapting. Cockroaches outlive everything.

I'm a writer. I could not or would not ever run a business. I don't even have a secretary. And contrary to some of the stereotypes, entrepreneurs are not loners. I am.

Do what you do best, and outsource the rest.

Any organisation develops people; it either forms them or deforms them.

What we are good at comes easy, and we believe that unless it comes hard, it can't be very good.