The large organization has to learn to innovate, or it won't survive.

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.

I love you madly, forever.

I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can't stop it.

Speaking with passion born of your own authentic experience and belief is always persuasive.

I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.

I burned my own damn finger pokin' someone else's fire

The sport of business is the ultimate competition. It's 7 × 24 × 365 × forever.

The only club I have ever belonged to is the James Bond fan club. Member since 1979.

I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because with that sense of privilege comes contempt.

It's kind of condoned in our society: There are things that an abusive mate could get away with with their partner that they could not with a stranger.

I remember when I was 14, I went to race in Hungary, and I went to a concert, and they were playing Bob Marley songs, and I thought, "Wow, this guy is so special." It's Marley every time.