Ideas are like frog eggs: you've got to lay a thousand to hatch one.

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.

As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.- (1772-1834)

We all see the same thing, but interpretive it differently.

How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

To be and not to be, that is the quantum question

I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.

The problem is, photographic dyes and printing inks aren't as good as paint, actually.

Putin is no different than any other powerful man, like a Senator, or a President.

God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.

Your life's work begins when your great joy meets the world's great hunger.

I am for Obama, all the way. I dont support Obama just because he is a black man; I support him because he is an educated black man. He is making black people proud.