For the first four years, no new enterprise produces profits. Even Mozart didn't start writing music until he was four.

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.

A primary requirement in every enterprise in habit-formation is self-confidence.

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

However benevolent men may be in their intentions, they cannot know what women want and what suits the necessities of women's lives as well as women know these things themselves.

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it.

Intellectually, as politically, the direction of all true progress is towards greater freedom, and along an endless succession of ideas.

Does killing time damage eternity?

Parents sometimes feel that if they don't criticize their child, their child will never learn. Criticism doesn't make people wantto change; it makes them defensive.

If you don't dare, you are doomed to dullness.

If design is the first signal of human intention.