Success in the marketplace increasingly depends on learning. Yet most people don't know how to learn.

Smart people don't learn... because they have too much invested in proving what they know and avoiding being seen as not knowing.

In fact, people themselves are responsible for making the status quo so resistant to change. We are trapped by our own behavior.

Individual learning is a necessary but insufficient condition for organizational learning.

Managers who are skilled communicators may also be good at covering up real problems.

One must treat theory-in-use as both a psychological certainty and an intellectual hypothesis.

Leadership is the day to day communications about the real issues.

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

Strike the rock and the water will flow

Whoever tells the best story shapes the culture.

The more we know about the former world, the better we’ll understand what happened when it fell.

People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.

This is a young man who is only 25, and you have to say, her has answered every question that has ever been asked.

I still think Ned Beatty should've played Don Corleone.

Paul Scholes is literally on another planet

I don't really need bulk, just strength. I can get strong without putting on weight.

I have a tendency to talk extremely fast. ... I think the fastness comes from the fact that I get very excited about things and I just want to spit them out.