“My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.”

“... Bezos personifies a new breed of executive that arose with the emergence of the game-changing technologies in the 1980s and 1990s ... a 'productive narcissist'. ... These executives have big enough egos to make up seemingly random rules of business leadership. However, unlike other narcissists, they get the job done.”

“The annoying thing about reading is that you can never get the job done. The other day I was in a bookstore flicking through a book called something like 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (and, without naming names, you should be aware that the task set by the title is by definition impossible, because at least four hundred of the books suggested would kill you anyway), but reading begets reading--that's sort of the point of it, surely?--and anybody who never deviates from a set list of books is intellectually dead anyway.”

“The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone”

“you get through terrible things trying to make them better for other people”

“Leadership is finding your voice,inspiring others to find their voice,empowering people and executing actions that get the world better.”