Do not tolerate brilliant jerks. The cost to teamwork is too high.

If you're not genuinely pained by the risk involved in your strategic choices, it's not much of a strategy.

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

-- Hypatia

It is not I who conform to the stars; the stars conform to me.

-- Plotinus

Everything depends on your judgment, and that judgment rests with you.

-- Marcus Aurelius

Others are others, I am I — regardless, I walk the path I walk.

-- Kitarō Nishida

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

-- Phil Knight

No one has the right to obey.

-- Hannah Arendt