Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.

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.

What keeps you confident in a healthy way is knowing that everyone else around you is going to support you and teach you and you're going to learn from them. I just feel open to learning from people.

To know as much as me, to know more you must start do stuff which make some scars on you.

I do get approached every day by people who say, 'Why don't you make more movies?' I don't really miss it when I get to go and watch my daughter in the Christmas pageant.

I'm just kind of taking whatever life gives me and hoping that I make the right decision.

I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.

It was like being given a maths problem when your brain's exhausted, and you know there's some far-off solution, but you can't work up the energy even to give it a go. Something in me just gave up.

I don't look at what people do with their homes in terms of money, but the social and personal value of what they're trying to do and achieve.

I was always a lover of soft-winged things.

Curiosity is a quest for wisdom on untamed grounds.

Without a high pain threshold, you can't be a successful President.