To put one’s career before one’s personal life is like putting death before life.

[Clayton] Christensen had seen dozens of companies falter by going for immediate payoffs rather than long-term growth, and he saw people do the same thing. In three hours at work, you could get something substantial...

I am sure of this: I am not crying. It is just that stupid drops of water that comes out of my eyes, now and then.

When you don’t see nothing wrong in anything you do, then you are doing everything wrong.

I don’t talk about my personal life so they [the media] had to make one up for me.

Accountability and self-responsibility are critical to our success in personal, professional and public life. However, we often look for those character traits in others, rather than inculcating them in ourselves.

He was one of those rare people, rare in our town as elsewhere, who have the courage of their good feelings. What little he told of his personal life vouched for acts of kindness and...

[I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens are the permanent property of the state, the highest form...