The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

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.

Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.

We will never know true bliss while our lifestyles are reliant on the misery and suffering of others.

The body manifests what the mind harbors.

Be as a lion in the path. Be dangerous even in defeat.

Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.

Creativity is what will separate the winners from the also-rans in the emerging world of business - and life.

One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith.

American officials have bent over backwards to show how sensitive they are to Muslim culture. It didn't seem very effective. They seem to be worried about winning the respect of other people.

Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge.

Every time somebody has thought of relief for the farmer it has been to make it so he could borrow more money. What he needs is some way to pay back. Not some way to borrow more.