Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.
If you have more than three priorities then you don't have any.
Resilency, not perfection, is the signature of greatness.
The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.
Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. It is one thing above all others: the ability to get and keep enough of the right people.
Don't take care of your career. Take care of your people. They will take care of your career.
People are not your most important asset....the right people are.
Great vision without great people is irrelevant.
The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconstancy. The signature of greatness is a disciplined and consistent focus on the right things.
All companies have a culture, some companies have discipline, but few companies have a culture of discipline. When you have disciplined people, you don't need hierarchy. When you have disciplined thought, you don't need bureaucracy. When you have disciplined action, you don' t need excessive controls. When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great performance.
Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.
Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.
The only way to deliver to the people who are achieving is to not burden them with the people who are not achieving.
Look, I don't really know where we should take this bus. But I know this much: If we get the right people on the bus, the right people in the right seats, and the wrong people off the bus, then we'll figure out how to take it someplace great.
Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.
In the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work. Perhaps, then you might gain that great tranquility that comes from knowing that you've had a hand in creating something of intrinsic excellence that makes a contribution. Indeed, you might even gain that deepest of all satisfactions: knowing that your short time on this earth has been well spent, and that it mattered.
Change your practices without abandoning your core values.
A culture of discipline is not a principle of business, it is a principle of greatness.
The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don't need them.
Comparison, a great teacher once told me, is the cardinal sin of modern life. It traps us in a game that we can't win. Once we define ourselves in terms of others, we lose the freedom to shape our own lives.
Don't be interesting - be interested.
Whether you prevail or fail depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.
Focusing solely on what you can potentially do better than any other organization is the only path to greatness.
The only way to remain great is to keep on applying the fundamental principles that made you great.
The essence of profound insight is simplicity.
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