People who know what they want and why they want it, and have the skills to communicate that to others in a way that gains support

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.

You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.

Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

Leaders must earn the trust of their teams, their organizations, and their stakeholders before attempting to engage their support.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together.

In today's life, Luxury is Time and Space.

He didn’t know what was hotter, her Star Wars reference or the breathiness with which she spoke it.

You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern.

There are some things in the world we can't change.

But the people of the church in Jerusalem had been commanded by a revelation, vouchsafed to approved men there before the war, to leave the city and to dwell in a certain town of Perea called Pella.

If too many things have to happen in order to bring about the situation you want, then back out of it and try again later.

The soul is content to stay imprisoned in the human body... for through the eyes all the various things of nature are represented to the soul.

He spoke, and loos'd our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth.

,the rest of the girls pretended not to notice. That's just what best friends do.

I don't look for people who have achieved great things; I look for people who will achieve great things.