Executives do many things in addition to making decisions. But only executives make decisions. The first managerial skill is, therefore, the making of effective decisions.

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.

If it's true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein on the planet.

And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.

My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.

It's great that ballroom dancing is being recognised. For many years ballroom dancers were misunderstood and other dance forms didn't want anything to do with us.

Aspirin is so good for roses, brandy for sweet peas, and a squeeze of lemon-juice for the fleshy flowers, like begonias.

As is my way, when I start something that I've put off doing, I always start with the hardest form. So I started with Ashtanga.

A recent Pew Hispanic survey found that more than 70 percent of illegal immigrants from Mexico are interested in a guest-worker program and then returning home.

Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.

Your soul sings to mine. My soul is yours, and it always will be, in any world. No matter what happens. I need you to remember that I love you.

Our democracy flourishes when people stand up for themselves and engage in the political process.