Managing innovation will increasingly become a challenge to management, and especially to top management, and a touchstone of its competence.

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.

Make love and kindness toward yourself and others a lifestyle and not a special event

I tell myself that this is okay, but I realize that I don’t have to. This is what I want. Him. Me. Closer

I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.

We cannot change the country, if our life has not been changed

Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.

When everyone covets something, they are easily annoyed by it.

Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

If you take something like the slave-auction sketch, the warmth of the light gives it a crisp 12 Years a Slave look. And your eye tells your brain, "I should be taking this seriously."

Incredible amounts of energy are hidden in your brain; enough in a gram of flesh to run the city of Chicago for 2 days. And you say you are tired?