The iPhone’s most irreplaceable components are indeed designed in California and assembled in China. But they can only be made in Taiwan.

Captain Marquet came to understand that the role of the leader is not to bark commands and be completely accountable for the success or failure of the mission. It is a leader's job instead to take responsibility for the success of each member of his crew. It is the leader’s job to ensure that they are well trained and feel confident to perform their duties. To give them responsibility and hold them accountable to advance the mission. If the captain provides direction and protection, the crew will do what needs to be done to advance the mission.

Forget about shortcuts. Run a business as if it’s forever.

If you want to win over another person, first win his heart, and the rest of him is likely to follow.

Recognize that it is far better to find a few smart people and give them the best technology than to have a greater number of ordinary people who are less well equipped. Great people and great technology both enhance productivity. Put them together in a well-designed machine and they improve it exponentially.

Christ says that He is ‘humble and meek’ and we believe Him; not noticing that, if He were merely a man, humility and meekness are the very last characteristics we could attribute to some of His sayings.

You must grapple with four realities—market realities, core competencies, stakeholder wants and needs, and values—before you will fully comprehend and be prepared to execute the pathfinding role.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

The sympathetic magic I think is most helpful is to think of your experience of pregnancy as affecting the foetus, as though the environment of the womb is telling the baby a story of what they will find after they are born.

Your intuition will always lead you to where you need to go and what you should do at any moment in time. It’s like a real-time inner GPS.