Effective managers proactively control their tasks and the expectations of their major stakeholders, which allows them to meet strategic goals rather than fight fires.

Yesterday's success formula is often today's obsolete dogma ... We must continually challenge the past so that we can renew ourselves each day.

Companies that succeed are driven by internal ambition. Stock price doesn’t drive them. Ambition and values drive them.

You cannot have faith in people unless you take action to improve and develop them.

You have to create tension between reality and aspiration

The ability to seize initiative is the most essential quality of any truly successful manager.

I am afraid of losing what I have already valued.

Vegtables, what food eats before it becomes food.

It's hard luck always having to be a judge.

Goodness by its nature is lovable and love finds it impossible not to pursue goodness.

I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational, most dedicated, most committed and most focused artist I've ever seen. I like to be around people like that.

I think everyone's so scared of other people judging them.

The familiar life horizon has been outgrown: the old concepts, ideals, and emotional patterns no longer fit; the time for the passing of a threshold is at hand.

I love the future we might invent for ourselves that I have not yet dreamt of.

It's not what's there that counts, it's what's projected and?it's not what he projects but rather what the voter receives? It's not the man we have to change, but rather the received impression.

It's not sometimes realistic to think that something magical can happen, but I think I look for the magic.