Miguel Lara

“Culture is not like a mission statement; you can’t just set it up and have it last forever. There’s a saying in the military that if you see something below standard and do nothing, then you’ve set a new standard. This is also true of culture—if you see something off-culture and ignore it, you’ve created a new culture.”
― Ben Horowitz, What You Do Is Who You Are: An expert guide to building your company’s culture, from the bestselling author and investor Ben Horowitz

“— I don’t know why people aren’t more curious, and why curiosity isn’t considered a more important leadership trait. A journalist once asked me if I was ever bored as a kid. I only had to think about it for a second: I never was, not even for a minute, because I was so curious. Every day I’d wake up excited by all the new things there were to learn about.”
― Michael Dell, Play Nice But Win: A CEO's Journey from Founder to Leader

“Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things … fail because we lack concentration—the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?”
― Ron Chernow, Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

“One of the keenest pleasures of this monstrous prince, which arouses him most vigorously, is to have every offender he can snare impaled before his eyes without distinction as to age or sex. Standing at an open palace window, 15 or 20 feet from the place of execution, surrounded by women, he enjoys in fine comfort the cruel pleasure of watching victims suffer.”
― Marquis de Sade, Aline and Valcour, or, the Philosophical Novel, Vol. III