By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.

Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.

True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.

The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.

If you have more than three priorities then you don't have any.

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

Free men can easily become enslaved, if they let others do their thinking and talking, instead of using their own heads.

Tell me what your vision of the future and I will tell you what you are.

I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.

Its amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.

I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me whether what I have thought has already been thought before me by another.

A horse is wonderful by definition.

What's the benefit of hatha yoga? Physical. What do you need to do hatha yoga? Physical body. That's it. Breathing and spirit is a part of any sport. So that's why hatha yoga can be a sport.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.

Everything that happens to us has a blessing built into it.