Patrick Lencioni Quotes

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Entrepreneurs don't write a 100-page business plan and execute it one time; they're always experimenting and adapting based on what they learn.

To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.

Intellectual capital will always trump financial capital.

The key is not to figure out what the best people are doing and try to emulate it - rather, figure out what causes people and companies to be successful.

The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.

Historic opportunities are missed because we fixate on what folks say they want. And what folks say they want in business and politics is limited to what they believe is possible.

The Future Belongs to Those Who are Fast

The greatest competitive advantage in the modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.

When everyone is running the machine, and it's all working, there's a tendency to look at the short term and focus on incremental opportunities and not look ahead to the really big opportunities.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

There never yet has been a country which became powerful without knowledge. A man by his own strength alone cannot successfully combat a tiger, but by his intelligence, he can devise means to entrap him.

I can't say enough about the guts and the talents of Amazon. They're so agile, they're so nimble; they picked us up two weeks after we premiered, and their whole attitude is, 'Go, go, go, go,' so I'm very, very impressed.

The best in business have boundless curiosity and open minds.

The opportunity ahead for Microsoft is vast, but to seize it, we must focus clearly, move faster, and continue to transform.

The best businesses are the ones that are the most paranoid.

Elon Musk should be at the top of the list of people to emulate when it comes to leading large organizations that are highly maneuverable and use it as a competitive advantage.

When someone intelligent comes around, and looks at life around football in a different way, it can be alien.

I had elements that were much more than what Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates had. If I work according to their methods, what will I create? All of this was in my head when I was young.

Intellectual capital drives financial capital and growth.

The real competitive advantage will come to countries and companies who differentiate their offerings through education, innovation, and productivity.

The mark of an innovative company is not only that it comes up with new ideas first, but also that it knows how to leapfrog when it finds itself behind.

Strategy is about shaping the future.

I can turn an idea into a business before you know it's going to be important. My first step will blow by you.

Obviously we don't have 300 million people. We haven't got a big army. We don't have Hollywood. We're a medium small-sized country. We have to do what medium small-sized countries do, which-even though we're not smarter than other people-is to make ourselves seem to be smarter. We have to work harder and know more than other people.