Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.

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.

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.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. Honor grows from qualms.

Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moron.

Physicality is the basis of performance.

For my brothers it was easy to think about the future. They can be anything they want. But for me it was hard and for that reason I wanted to become educated and empower myself with knowledge.

We have $70 and a pair of girl's underpants. We're safe as kittens.

Something's been guiding me around throughout my life.

I always say you need something weird on your face and some good shoes and nobody looks in the middle.

There's some brain damage, but it may be that very brain damage that allows me to do the work I do.

Never underestimate your own capacity to care.

I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country.