All earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain community, let alone create 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.

Be creative enough to dream, brave enough to try, persistent enough to succeed, and humble enough to thank those who helped you along the way.

Every place there's people, there's badness.

By means of positive imaginations, leaders bring the future to the present so that they can work on it before setting off to enter it.

You may not have money, you may not have medicine, you may not have miracles, but you do have words, and they can produce life, or death depending on how you use them.

I do not like the phrase: Never cross a bridge till you come to it. The world is owned by men who cross bridges on their imaginations miles and miles in advance of the procession.

Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in ones birthplace.

I'm an old-fashioned person and I happen to believe in traditional marriage.

My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.

Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.

Understand--it ALWAYS makes sense. Sense can't be avoided. If it first seems to be non-sense, wait: roots will reveal themselves.