Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.

True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.

The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.

If you have more than three priorities then you don't have any.

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.

My history is my step to future, whatever the history was full of garbage, but I can get over it and get to the TOP with my History

The gentle art of gastronomy is a friendly one. It hurdles the language barrier, makes friends among civilized people, and warms the heart.

I need the ting but not ting ting ting

Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue.

Seven million ship cargo containers come into the United States every year. Five to seven percent only are inspected - five to seven percent.

Opera is for a lifetime, not just a minute.

We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop.

We are all facing the end one day or another. I say, live a good and prosperous life, make sure your choices count, make them count.