In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.

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'll go, " he said."And that's safer because?""I'm a guy.""Right, and having a pair of dingle balls makes you invincible how?

Other people imagined demons and monsters under the bed. Robert had actually seen them.

We never know how much has been missing from our lives until a true writer comes along.

Earth sounds my wisdom, and high heaven my fame.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

No matter how strong the rival, the just will always win.

I am gonna write poems til i die and when i have gotten outta this body i am gonna hang round in the wind and knock over everybody who got their feet on the ground.

A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But there was no sense I was suffering from a medical condition as such.

Martin Luther was asked, what would you do if tomorrow the world would come to an end, and he said, 'I would plant an apple tree today.' This is a real good answer. I would start shooting a movie.