I am defining leadership in terms of the role, not the position.

The only thing of real importance that leader do is to create and manage culture

In most organizational change efforts, it is much easier to draw on the strengths of the culture than to overcome the constraints by changing the culture.

We do not think and talk about what we see; we see what we are able to think and talk about.

Leadership is the ability to step outside the culture to start evolutionary change processes that are more adaptive.

The company ... has no rights to survive. But value systems and philosophies survive. People take them with them

Culture is not a surface phenomenon, it is our very care

Just like your body and lifestyle can be healthy or unhealthy, the same is true with your beliefs. Your beliefs can be your medicine or your poison.

You have to relax, write what you write. It sounds easy but it's really, really hard. One of the things it took me longest to learn was to trust the writing process.

I gave up a lot of things in exchange for my success.

I have an opportunity to look kids in the face and let them know it's not about where you come from; it's how you use what you have to get to where you need to be.

God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well!

Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism... for testing your thoughts against the universe.

I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.

Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.

States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.

The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.