It's not hard work that wears you out, but the repression of your true personality, and I've found a way of working that does not demand that.

Leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do it.

The leader for today and the future will be focused on how to be - how to develop quality, character, mind-set, values, principles, and courage.

Organizations exist to make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. And this is the work of effective leaders.

Communication is not saying something; communication is being heard.

The leader builds dispersed and diverse leadership - distributing leadership to the outermost edges of the circle to unleash the power of shared responsibility.

Leadership is much less about what you do, and much more about who you are.

You should be a living practicing example of what you are preaching.

When you see a roadblock or challenge as an opportunity, it is amazing how you are already halfway there.

Dispirited, unmotivated, unappreciated workers cannot compete in a highly competitive world.

No matter what business you're in, everyone in the organisation needs to know why

I have scars. No one alive today doesn't. But Alex's scars have to be much deeper than mine.

I've worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. I'm past the point where I worry about people liking me.

Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?

He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.

It's important to find what really suits who you are, because style isn't only what you wear, it's what you project.

Great loves too must be endured.

I hope to die right in the middle of a song and right on the stage doing what I love to do. I hope to be about 120 when that happens.

We are not alone. We have many brothers who in this moment of catastrophe came to help. And we too, because of this, we feel more like brothers and sisters because we helped each other.

It wasn't just British gangster films that really did for me as a kid, personally, it was British films in general.