Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.

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.

A glass of happiness fills whole body. (Un verre de bonheur - Remplit tout le corps)

Lust is a pleasure bought with pains, a delight hatched with disquiet, a content passed with fear, and a sin finished with sorrow.

I propose to create a Civilian Conservation Corps to be used in simple work...More important, however, than the material gains will be the moral and spiritual value of such work.

But I am the real Strider, fortunately. I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can save you, I will.

Success is doing the best you possibly can with what you've been given. There are an alarming number of wealthy failures in the world today.

Be confident, but allow yourself to be vulnerable.

I enjoy the work, I enjoy every minute of my professional life.

Microsoft shoots for the moon. Sony shoots for the sun.

It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.

And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway