No single piece of macroeconomic advice given by the experts to their government has ever had the results predicted.

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 know you’re writing well when you’re throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.

May the beauty of the flowers remind us of the beauty of our loved one's spirit

I did not come to NASA to make history.

The purpose exceeds the pain.

The devil is more interesting than God.

I had to get in touch with the source, I had to go back into my abandonment issues with my mother, I had to go into issues with my father I hadn't even looked at before.

You're a musician and you live and die by people responding to your music. It's a business just like anything else and if people don't like your music, that's kind of your problem.

A theology whose god is a metaphor is wasting its time.

The world is really figuring BSE out, and that's positive.

I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone.