Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.

If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.

What's measured improves

Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.

Valentine's Day is the poet's holiday.

. . . crazy world or maybe it's just the view we have of it, looking through a crack in the door, never being able to see the whole room, the whole picture.

You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility.

You contribute much to your marriage by the wise, thrifty, diligent management and oversight of your part of the household budget.

I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.

The old watch the young with anguish, pain, fear. Above all what each has learned is what things cost, what has to be paid.

My Mother's an actress, and she's always told me, "Boy, you're an actor." I would look forward to seeing if I'm any good. I want to be good at it, that's the only thing.

When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.

Is it my imagination, or does shipping and handling settle a box of crackers more than it used to?

What happened to us in September, 2001, is a microcosmic but painful and powerful example of the fact we live in an inter-dependent world that is not yet an integrated global community.