Managing risk is very different from managing strategy. Risk management focuses on the negative-threats and failures rather than opportunities and successes.

A mere 7% of employees today fully understand their company's business strategies and what's expected of them in order to help achieve company goals.

Process improvement programs are like teaching people how to fish. Strategy maps and scorecards teach people where to fish.

Consistent alignment of capabilities and internal processes with the customer value proposition is the core of any strategy execution.

Without strong visionary leadership, no strategy will be executed effectively.

It bears repeating: you don't have to be good at everything.

Screening out peer pressure and conventional wisdom. It is so powerful, that most of us aren't even aware of how much it is influencing our decisions.

If you're the smartest person in the room, it can sometimes be hard to learn to delegate - the person to whom you're delegating will do the task worse than you would - and it will annoy you!

As a leader, it is often better to ask the right questions and listen than to have all the answers.

The better strategy is to focus on strengths and surround yourself with people who can complement your skills. However, you have to first do the analysis.

Authenticity is critical to leadership. That means trying to be yourself - this involves some self-disclosure, admitting what you don't know and being willing to ask questions.

When the citizens of a nation have been made to love and adhere to values and virtues, then they make better choices.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

I love going to all kinds of movies, I screen DVDs in my house, but I go to the theatre a lot in the afternoon. I don't get bugged because there aren't many people around.

Content is not the pathway to great deeds.

Karma simply means that whatever type of energy you project, or you allow to pass through your being, you will become for a period of time.

I don't do nothing I don't want to do.

Th' imperial ensign, which full high advanc'd Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind.

Commas, like nuns, often travel in pairs.

I once went through the dustbin outside David Bowie's house.

You cannot export revolution, progress, by force of arms.