Leadership is like beauty - it's hard to define but you know it when you see it.

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.

You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.

Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

Leaders must earn the trust of their teams, their organizations, and their stakeholders before attempting to engage their support.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together.

Where there is anger there is always pain underneath.

Can you imagine what will happen if just for one day the sun forgot to rise?

Absolutely nothing. That's what I'm going to do for two weeks. Not think. If I start to think, I'm going to think really hard about not thinking until I quit thinking.

On Loyalty:Loyalty is warranted only when it's been earned.Misplacing loyalty is like signing blank checks.

You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.

You have to know how to score.

Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.

The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified.

On me, on me Time and change can heap no more! The painful past with blighting grief Hath left my heart a withered leaf. Time and change can do no more.

Marxism requires that we destroy God, because government must become God. And the only way for government to become God is to destroy the concept of God.