My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

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.

Observation is a critical activity in the innovation process to understand the context of an issue from a human perspective.

I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Every man is the artisan of his own fortune.

A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each topic.

Kvetha, Shur'tugal Greetings, Dragon Rider

My first movie was 'Diner.' My second movie was 'Tender Mercies.' I did really good work.

Knowledge will not attract money, unless it is organized, and intelligently directed, through practical plans of action, to the definite end of accumulation of money.

Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.

Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs.