Miracles are great, but they're so damn unpredictable.

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.

You've got an awfully kissable mouth.

Controversy is a last resort for the talentless.

He took it out like a sprinter, and brought it home like a distance swimmer.

Liberty is not an end, but a means. Whoever mistakes it for an end does not know what to do once he attains it.

Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.

Most of the world is covered by water. A fisherman's job is simple: Pick out the best parts.

I do not add a penny to the national debt.

I try to be fussy about the parts I play. I think that's quite prudent, it means you're stretching different muscles, and you're scaring yourself by doing something which is out of your comfort zone.

Running alone is the toughest. You get to the point where you have to keep pushing yourself.