Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity.

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.

You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.

Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

Leaders must earn the trust of their teams, their organizations, and their stakeholders before attempting to engage their support.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together.

I tried not to think of all the horror movies featuring this exact scenario, soon to be followed by an abundance of gratuitous blood and gore.

You're not good for me when you're not mine.

First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.

Losers bring money into the market which is necessary for the prosperity of the trading industry.

Love is like air we can't see it but feel it.

Do not stand directly in front of a cannon...how true that is.

Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion.

The things we fear about poetry are the things that are good about poetry.

One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.

The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries.