Successful leaders don't start out asking, 'What do I want to do?' They ask, 'What needs to be done?' Then they ask, 'Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?'

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.

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.

Women shouldn't be burdened by what existed in their past, we should all learn how to turn pain into strength.

I cannot believe that the killing of 2,000 Englishmen at New Orleans qualifies a person for the various difficult and complicated duties of the Presidency.

Without the definiteness of sculpture and painting, music is, for that very reason, far more suggestive. Like Milton's Eve, an outline, an impulse, is furnished, and the imagination does the rest.

I don’t like to quote myself but unfortunately everybody I know who should be quoting me is dead.

That's really all I want, to be able to change the world with my voice.

We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.

Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower.

I've been riding on the crest of a slump lately.

The fruit of the Spirit is . . . self-control