A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be

Don't lose youself on the way to the top.

Business is a game, and as with all games, the team that puts the best people on the field and gets them playing together wins. It's that simple.

Excellence and competitiveness aren't incompatible with honesty and integrity.

If work is just going in every day and getting a check, it's an ugly life. When you can make work a meaningful purpose, you've hit the jackpot for people.

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

In the end, your integrity is all you've got.

The most important job you have is growing your people, giving them a chance to reach their dreams.

When there's change, there's opportunity.

Protecting underperformers always backfires.

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

Nothing of any importance has ever been accomplished by a pessimist.

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.

Never miss out on an opportunity like a good recession.

The 3Ss of Winning in business are speed, simplicity, and self-confidence.

Don't make the process harder than it is.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

When you were made a leader you weren't given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.