Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?

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.

To Dream The Impossible Dream, Is Something Great We All Should Do

When the last leaf falls, what will die within us?

I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.

I think you learn about yourself through experiences - as many of them as you can manage.

I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.

There's an old saying among scientific guys: "You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs, ideally by dropping a cement truck on them from a crane."

To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.

Patsy Cline belongs shoulder-to-shoulder with Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald.

God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.

Young playmates of the rose and daffodil, Be careful ere ye enter in, to fill Your baskets high With fennel green, and balm, and golden pines Savory latter-mint, and columbines.