Decision making is the specific executive task.

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.

Nothing truly wild is unclean.

How many years went by unnoticed, unembraced?

The age of strong belief is over the good is no longer always very good.

You think she's pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!

I don't shoot anything. I could never kill an animal. My dad does all the hunting, and he eats everything that he kills.

L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.

People are skeptical of many televangelists, and I'm sensitive to that.

I just feel like Brits are honest - period. And that's what I like.

I'm a guy who doesn't like to be alone, and the joy that my friends pass me, with them being always by my side, is gigantic.

They say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true, and I've seen him so many times.