The Welfare State, which begun in Imperial Germany for the truly indigent and disabled, has now become "everybody's entitlement" and an increasing burden on those who produce.

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.

I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry.

A man's immortality can be found in his children.

I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible.

Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers.

There is a popular conception about karma, and that is that as you sow, so shall you reap. That's only true if you're a farmer.

Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder--but not the ladder.

I created EIDWIM20s as a voice for women like myself.

Google, I think, in some ways, is more competitive and certainly is trying to build their own little version of Facebook.

What I love the most is getting on the ice and just popping in a fabulous CD and skating - all by myself, the rink completely empty, just me and the music.

Whatever a leader does now sets up what he does later. And there's always a later.