All good strategy eventually degenerates into work.

It’s up to you to carve out your place, to know when to change course, and to keep yourself engaged and productive during a work life that may span some 50 years.

There's nothing so useless than executing a task efficiently when it actually never should have been executed at all.

The single most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that results exist only on the outside.The result of a business is a satisfied customer. The result of a hospital is a satisfied patient. The result of a school is a student who has learned something and puts it to work ten years later. Inside an enterprise there are only costs.

Never ask who's right. Start out by asking what is right. And you find that out by listening to dissenting, disagreeing opinions.

Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

There is nothing worse than doing the wrong thing well.