If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.

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.

I don't care... Actually i do... That's the whole problem...

Migration is the story of my life: my parents and grandparents journeyed across four continents to flee war and find jobs, eventually finding their way to the U.S.

No, General. I'm not your subordinate. And what I'm coming dangerously close to is violence. -General Wedge Antilles

Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.

For many wealthy people, giving a tenth is a way of robbing God. Their tithe becomes a tip.

Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.

It isn't as important to buy as cheap as possible as it is to buy at the right time.

In my case I've never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days.

The idea that people are incapable of making up their own minds about people is something that Obama and his party live with every day.

It is only in the depths of crisis and despair that the fear of losing one's personality breeds millennial hopes of rescue: otherwise, complacency prevails.