If the private sectors are about markets and the public sectors are about governments, then the plural sector is about communities.

Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.

Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet

When the world is predictable you need smart people. When the world is unpredictable you need adaptable people.

Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.

Organizations are communities of human beings, not collections of human resources

An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of "human resources".

Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing.

Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions

Strategy-making is an immensely complex process involving the most sophisticated, subtle, and at times subconscious of human cognitive and social processes.

Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense

Unleash the force of bliss within you. Radiate your joy no matter what!

An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.

The world is satisfied with words. Few appreciate the things beneath. [Fr., Le monde se paye de paroles; peu approfondissement les choses.]

Sometimes it felt like I was carrying pieces of human flesh back home with me, not negatives. It's as if you are carrying the suffering of the people you have photographed.

Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.

He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion.

You need me as much as I need you. That makes us equal partners in my book. Well, your book is just wrong.

The Syrian people do not recognize themselves in the elite politics of the Muslim Brotherhood or the left, each of which is looking for an external power rather than the people's own self-activity.

Until we can look at fear and accept it as the shadow of personal existence, as persons we are bound to be afraid.

Whatever you do, don't whimper, but take the consequences.