A fundamental responsibility of leadership is make sure that everybody knows the mission, understands it, lives it.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.

Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.

Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

What gets measured gets managed.

The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

The key to greatness is to look for people's potential and spend time developing it.

The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action.

Every choice comes with a consequence. Once you make a choice, you must accept responsibility. You cannot escape the consequences of your choices, whether you like them or not.

The elderly become invisible sooner than we would hope.

The queers could almost pass for the same species as the straights.

The prosperity of right is that it is always beautiful and pure.

Is she perverted like me? Would she go down on you in a theatre?

I guess when you're young you have tunnel vision.

To work with somebody you love makes filming faster, more fun.

An admiral should be put to death now and then to encourage the others.

You can lose leverage, and it's the only way a smart guy can go broke.