Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say "health care"; that's an intention, not an objective.

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.

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.

Victory takes sides on people who are more compatible with nature and future.

The worst prison is not made of metal bars. The worst prison is when your internal reality does not match your external reality.

Find your place and hold it: find your work and do it. And put everything you've got into it.

Remember that all the others are more afraid than you

The love-lorn nightingale nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well.

You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral.

I pick and choose what I want to do at any given time, and what not to do, importantly. My agents, I won't hear about any offers or options.

Don’t win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room.

I'm only a human being.