The real achiever do one thing at a time.

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.

Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold.

Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.

We must not wish anything other than what happens from moment to moment, all the while, however, exercising ourselves in goodness.

You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.

When I go to the cinema I watch all different kinds of films.

I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

I am partly not conscious of structure with my movies, but this is when I am writing. I leave my mind very free, and then I correct it after.