Look upon every obstacle as part payment towards your success.

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.

A man can’t talk of true happiness if he has never known true love—the trusting, selfless and unconditional love that I took for granted.

The best way to overcome depression is to work it to death. Whether it be your body or your mind, just be active and some relief you’ll find.

I look just like the girl next door ... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

Trust me not at all, or all in all.

Give me a man with an average ability but a burning desire to succeed and I will give you a winner in exchange every time.

Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.

It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.

To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.

Don't hesitate to learn the most painful aspects of our history, understand it.

Damned indecision and cursed pride.