Leadership is communicating others’ worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.

In the Scriptures there is practically no effort made to define faith… It assumes the presence of faith and shows what it results in, rather than what it is.

Understand your customers deeply through detailed avatars.

The oppression of the oppressed always goes on growing up to the furthest limit, beyond which it cannot go without killing the goose with the golden eggs.

It’s in the interests of an autocrat that the only real bond among his supporters should be their support for him. - Hannah Arendt in The Origins of Totalitarianism.

You have to lose yourself to find yourself, give yourself away to get everything back.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.

Once I’ve established the size of the company relative to others in a particular industry, next I place it into one of six general categories: slow growers, stalwarts, fast growers, cyclicals, asset plays, and turnarounds.

In more and more contexts, patience becomes a form of power. In a world geared for hurry, the capacity to resist the urge to hurry – to allow things to take the time they take – is a way to gain purchase on the world, to do the work that counts, and to derive satisfaction from the doing itself, instead of deferring all your fulfilment to the future.

Integrity: you choose courage over comfort.