The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system's weaknesses irrelevant.

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.

Some find freedom in comfortothers find comfort in freedom

Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

Is there a rehab center for Coke drinkers? I drink six to eight cans a day.

Do the very best you can.

For me, jazz, R&B, jump swing, Chicago blues, country blues, early hillbilly music, and honky tonk all stem from the same source

There is an all powerful force or energy that creates all and draws all back into it. This is God. It is beyond intelligence, beyond analysis.

But I know all the things you're too sweet to know.

[On men:] On their best days, the best of them are eight years old.

Love is not an option. It's the choice of an idiot who wants to end with nothing, robbed and abused and humiliated.