The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive.

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.

[T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.

To understand is to forgive.

Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.

I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me.

I'm quite fond of the writer who told a beginning author, "If you've got a message, use Western Union."

I am weird, you are weird. Everyone in this world is weird. One day two people come together in mutual weirdness and fall in love.

He that seekes trouble never misses. [He that seeks trouble never misses.]

Our civilization is shifting from science and technology to rhetoric and litigation.

Grief-stricken. Stricken is right; it is as though you had been felled. Knocked to the ground; pitched out of life and into something else.

Feed and strengthen your body. Fear is physical. When you lift weights or go for a sprint, that energy flows back into your body and restores you to certainty.