Profit is not the explanation, cause, or rationale of business behavior and business decisions, but the test of their validity.

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.

The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.

Nowhere are the generosity and the kindness and mercy of God more manifest than in repentance.

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart.

For me, drawing is everything, because it informs everything. It even informs my poetry. It's the way I begin everything.

It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery

I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.

There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

We must satisfy our customers.