The best path to power combines two things: 1) a path that not many are taking and 2) something that you are capable and comfortable with doing.

Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.

Successful organizations understand the importance of implementation, not just strategy, and, moreover, recognize the crucial role of their people in this process.

Knowledge is only useful if you do something with it.

You are more likely to acquire power by narrowing your focus and applying your energies, like the sun's rays, to a limited range of activities in a small number of domains.

You can't be normal and expect abnormal returns.

Point at solutions instead of at each other.

Most organisations say they want creativity, but really they do not.

My overall recommendation: for decades corporate policy manuals and HR departments have told people they are responsible for their own careers. It's about time people really heeded those warnings.

We give up and don't try. We don't take sufficient chances or risks. We aren't resilient in the face of failure. We follow the "rules" too much and don't push the envelope.

Being memorable equals getting picked.

What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.

Loneliness is a good education. You learn the things no crowds can teach and you discover the things no crowds can give.

Life is full of beautiful moments. Live your life to the fullest. And do what youlove.

I'm in love with my second cousin.

President Obama is the least transparent president in the history of this country.

If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own.

It's getting harder and harder to worry needlessly.

I love good romantic comedies. There just aren't a lot of them. But, I love comedies, and I'll never stop doing them.

The only way for a women to get my attention is to be you

Nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will.