The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.

All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.

An ability to embrace new ideas, routinely challenge old ones, and live with paradox will be the effective leader's premier trait.

WORK ON YOUR STORY! He/she who has the best story wins! In life! In business! The White House!

The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.

In the great city of San Francisco, where I used to live, at 2 in the morning every other Victorian house has somebody who is writing the great American novel. And the city is not loaded with James Joyces or Virginia Woolfs. But entrepreneurship is about distorted views of reality.

If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I've gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time.