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.

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.

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

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.

You see, from where I stand, there are a couple of ways. You continue your journey and you will find your path or the path is already there and you aren't just able to see it.

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.

At one point in my career, while still hosting 'The Arsenio Hall Show,' I was told by my doctor that it might not be physically possible for me to have children.

I like nice clothes, whether they're dodgy or not.

I told myself there was no way I was going to let this training go to waste. It was my time, and I was ready to go.

I had to go see the Glee concert with my daughter - oh my God, shoot me.

Reading newspapers in the state of Maine is like paying somebody to tell you lies.

When you shoot a movie, the camera is always taking, taking, taking and not giving anything back.

Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.