If "socialism" is defined as "ownership of the means of production"--and this is both the orthodox and the only rigorous definition--then the United States is the first truly Socialist country.

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.

The world to him no longer seemed a math equation but rather a complex piece of art, a masterpiece of things not easily understood.

Life’s product should be made intentionally and consciously

Say It Out Loud: I AM beautiful. I AM worthy. I AM somebody. I DO deserve to be genuinely loved. I DO deserve to be respected. I DO deserve happiness.

After all, Betty was ill and she was her sister, and she wouldn't be able to shave her legs for weeks because of the plaster.

War is failure of diplomacy.

Marry somebody you love. That's the whole thing. And continue to love them.

I feel like I have no real solid plans like, "this is what I'm going to do and I will do it by 2017" or whatever.

I love to swim. I need goggles. If I don't have goggles I run in to the walls of the pool. I have no sense of directions.

Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedposts overnight. If your mother said don't chew it, do you swallow it in spite?

Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.