Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch.

A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.

Due to budget cutbacks, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.

If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun.

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Don't hire a master to paint you a masterpiece and then assign a roomful of schoolboy artists to look over his shoulder and make suggestions.

Managers must have the discipline not to keep pulling up the flowers to see if their roots are healthy.

To keep an organization young and fit, don't hire anyone until everybody's so overworked they'll be glad to see the newcomer no matter where he sits.

"Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.

If you have to have a policy manual, publish the 'Ten Commandments.'

It will take time to restore chaos

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

My mother always told me that no matter how late it is, you take your makeup off. Take it off!

I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions.

There is no radical or moderate Islam. There is only one Islam and that is the Islam from the Koran, the holy book. That is the Islam from Mohammed. There are no two sorts of Islam.

People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.

One of the most constant aspects of American life is change - and nowhere is it more evident than in our financial markets.

That's one of the best sets I've seen him play, although I should preface that by saying I haven't seen him play before.

In contrast to the path of selfishness, there is no room for road rage on the straight and narrow way.

Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story.