Effective innovations start small. They are not grandiose. They try to do one specific thing.

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.

It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand. ~ Brian Stimpson, Clockwise

It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.

Mistakes in life teach you how to succeed because you want to try again and do it better.

It became sort of a snowball effect, with guys trying to deal in their own way with 9/11, whether it was drinking or whatever.

Do I want to die from the inside out or the outside in?

The prison systems in this country actually are exploitative and they are not in any way rehabilitative.

In virtually every organization, regardless of mission and function, people are frustrated by problems that seem unsolvable.

Processed pig is white trash meat. Some people call it Spam.

On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.

Don't deliver an essay with so many points. No one can absorb it. Just say one thing... Of course, you can say the point in many different ways over and over again with different illustrations.