The fruit of your work grows on other people's trees

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.

Death is just the birth of yet another odyssey.

Each day, write a thankful note.

I don't do any jokes that old. I might have maybe one or two jokes from high school that I still do.

Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that's another discussion entirely.

I had a survey done on my house. 8 out of 10 people said they really rather liked it

The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.

Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.

It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.

Jesus Christ, this godamn rain, will someone put me on a train.

We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.