The ultimate resource in economic development is people. It is people, not capital or raw materials that develop an economy.

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.

Enjoy the Life.. until the Energy is in your Life...

...people who don't live at least a little bit in fear, have nothing left to live for.

The attempt to interpret human behavior in terms of models derived from the natural sciences eventually destroys personal responsibility.

Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you're able to grasp what things mean.

We won't figure out what's sacred in life if we settle for what's safe.

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

I turn and I slowly walk away and I don't look back. It has always been a fault of mine, but it is the way I am. I never look back. Never.

When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.

The world is R-rated, and no one's checking IDs

Hollywood is a bit of a publicity game where it's constantly trying to portray things and put up this image and I was not interested in that.