Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.

Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet

When the world is predictable you need smart people. When the world is unpredictable you need adaptable people.

Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.

Organizations are communities of human beings, not collections of human resources

An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of "human resources".

Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing.

Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions

Strategy-making is an immensely complex process involving the most sophisticated, subtle, and at times subconscious of human cognitive and social processes.

Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense

Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept called rationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic and powerful intuition

We can only transform our lives by renewal of mind via renewed knowledge.

Damn, Claire. Warn a guy before you do a face-plant on the floor next time. I could have looked all heroic and caught you or something -Shane

Dare to try the impossible.

The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle but to make them long for it.

I've never liked watching real-life couples play couples onscreen or onstage. It takes me out of the story.

Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty; concerning her plainness she may be ignorant.

The general rule is that anything that is passed on in reproduction does not undergo senescence.

But Fascism cannot continue in a modified form.

Double - no, triple - our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth.

I think the way we show love for God is by loving each other, by extending the love that we are.