Adversarial power relationships only work if you never have to see or work with the bastards again.

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.

Technical problems are like gremlins. They come and go.

Another chapter closes before it has the chance to begin

I was always rather nasty. I was willing to be friends with the Devil, just to cross the bridge.

There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in harm's way.

I want to see the numbers that prove that show-business marriages are any less successful than other marriages. It's just very public when they fail.

After five months I swore I’d never get pregnant again. I got so huge and it felt like someone had taken over my body.

An overheating economy, characterized by accelerating inflation and rising interest rates, is another precondition for recession. This doesn't describe today's economy.

No one wants for their child to become a refugee. It's an awful experience.

Don't get fancy. Have you cooked an apple pie? You don't know what you did wrong? Do this: Take two or three apples. Put them on a table. Study them.

I don't notice any sympathy for them in [ Nicholas Kristof] column. If you're writing a column saying the people for Trump are Nazis and Klansman and North Korean dictators.