Don't solve problems. Pursue opportunities.

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.

You can lead and motivate people without a certificate or title, what you need to do is to tell people a compelling secret that was only known to you.

Success means nothing if you don't know who you are. If you don't know who you are then you are not a success.

If a man had nothing that was worth dying for, then he was not fit to live.

It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.

Dr. Calder [a Unitarian minister] said of Dr. [Samuel] Johnson on the publications of Boswell and Mrs. Piozzi, that he was like Actaeon, torn to pieces by his own pack.

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

When I wrote my first story, all the characters were teenagers because I think 16, 17 is a great age.

Love yourself - Do it now! Don't wait until you get well or lose the weight, or get the new job, or the new relationship.

You have to focus on what's important to you and go for it. But don't stab people in the back. It poisons your whole life if you're like that.

I don't want to just be fully rapping my whole life.