The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

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.

This long-tail distribution of returns is why it's important to be bold. Big winners pay for so many experiments.

The power of positive thinking will overcome so many things

In short, you had that particular ability which I never had: the ability to be alive.

A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.

People who are obsessed with Jesus give freely and openly without censure. Obsessed people love those who hate them and who can never love them back.

There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.

I always feel kind of absurd and presumptuous presenting a speech.

Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work

Am I really a good mathematician?

If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.