Communication always makes demands. It always demands that the recipient become somebody, do something, believe something. It always appeals to motivation.

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.

So much of war is sitting around and doing nothing, waiting for somebody else. With no guarantee of the amount of time you have left it doesn't seem worth even starting a train of thought.

I felt like I was an arrow, pulled back and ready to be launched into something big.

Astrologers that future fates foreshow.

A wise word is more rare than the green emerald, and one can find the word of wisdom even amongst the slave girls making grain.

Carl Reiner particularly as a writer, a terrific writer. He's just turning out things.

People will hate you for speaking the truth, but you've gotta learn to stand up to them, so don't be offended if I say something you don't like.

Monsters work seven days a week and don't take vacations.

The Law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.

Your manners will depend very much upon the quality of what you frequently think on; for the soul is as it were tinged with the colour and complexion of thought.

The Internet has definitely opened doors and leveled the playing field for musicians.