Most organisations say they want creativity, but really they do not.

Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.

Successful organizations understand the importance of implementation, not just strategy, and, moreover, recognize the crucial role of their people in this process.

Knowledge is only useful if you do something with it.

You are more likely to acquire power by narrowing your focus and applying your energies, like the sun's rays, to a limited range of activities in a small number of domains.

You can't be normal and expect abnormal returns.

Point at solutions instead of at each other.

The best path to power combines two things: 1) a path that not many are taking and 2) something that you are capable and comfortable with doing.

My overall recommendation: for decades corporate policy manuals and HR departments have told people they are responsible for their own careers. It's about time people really heeded those warnings.

We give up and don't try. We don't take sufficient chances or risks. We aren't resilient in the face of failure. We follow the "rules" too much and don't push the envelope.

Being memorable equals getting picked.

Wise? No, I simply learned to think.

A product is supposed to be what you are intentionally producing with your life at least every month.

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

Every man who attacks my belief diminishes in some degree my confidence in it and therefore makes me uneasy and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

I'll walk up to a woman, I'll say the first thing that comes to mind: 'Hey, you hungry?'

Our souls, shame-wounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more.

My only fashion school was what I saw in the newspapers and on television

I'm a woman, but I've been a sexist, too.

There are millions and millions of people who are thrown in the midst of poverty and starvation. Animals don't die of starvation, only human beings.

Better to fail spectacularly than do something mediocre.