In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. read more

In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the
idea of a cathedral in read more

A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the
idea of a cathedral in mind.

The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of
comfort.

The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of
comfort.

The most distinguishing feature of winners is their intensity of purpose.

The most distinguishing feature of winners is their intensity of purpose.

You either move toward something you love or away from something
you fear. The first expands. The second constricts.

You either move toward something you love or away from something
you fear. The first expands. The second constricts.

There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.

There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.

After enlightenment, the laundry.

After enlightenment, the laundry.

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at
his rock perhaps a hundred times read more

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at
his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.
Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was
not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Some people grow under responsibility, others merely swell.

Some people grow under responsibility, others merely swell.