Business enterprise is an organ of society. There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.

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.

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

I've always been attracted to stories about rebels - things that are unusual and sometimes dangerous.

All I want is the defining moment.

To be a person who sees a political ad on television and takes the statements in it as fact, how can you exist in this world? How is it you're not robbed daily by charlatans who knock at your door?

I embraced a cloud but when I soared it rained.

The process of discovering who we are and what we are here to do . . . is dependent . . . on our ability to stay positive and to find a silver lining in all events.

What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.

If this universe is the House of God, then I must say it is quite a dark house despite several hundred billion suns!

A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling thought.

When we sin, we are often upset, not because we have grieved the Spirit but because our pride has been injured.