Every single social and global issue of our day is a business opportunity in disguise.

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.

Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

My brother never had me to dinner in his life.

It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn.

Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.

A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: "they" does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she or he has, or how eager you are to skirt the gender frays.

Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.

When you go on an audition it's very frightening.

If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?

We read best what we read most.