A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the manager's boss as it applies to the manager's subordinates.

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.

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

The Brigadier had no wish to shake hands with the improbable young man in the ridiculous frock-coat.

You only need grace to allow the light and good spirit of your sacred-self to exist.

When taking on a leadership role in business remember it's about relationships. If your people (aka employees) are taken care of then they will respect you and return the favor.

Space is entirely poetic.

Specifically, the part where in the early 19th century America reconstituted the U.S. Marine Corps to battle the Islamic Barbary Pirates, though I don't think that's what Obama meant.

I’ve actually been in a lot of movies that involve sucking on fingers.

Having seen war, you obviously learned to hate war.

Happiness is realizing your dreams.

Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.