The rule should be to minimize the need for people to get together to accomplish anything.

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.

Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'...

We're taking a ride down the Kashirksy Highway

What is it all but a trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns?

I'd love to have a child. Either one or 40. I love kids.

Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing.

I've been within an inch of my life.

In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.

The reader is the content of any poem or of the language he employs, and in order to use any of these forms, he must put them on.

When I'm in northern Italy, I walk about feeling slightly less of a freak.