There are two types of people in the business community: those who produce results and those who give you reasons why they didn't.

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.

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.

Unconditional love in any form is the greatest gift life can ever give you.

Whatever pursuit you undertake, the requirements should start with a love of what it is that you are pursuing.

These are the young women [in Stand by Me] that we grew up knowing and hopefully they feel a little rough around the edges, because it's true to life.

I do 100 shows a year, but I do it in fits and starts, as opposed to going on a long run.

I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am - what shall I say I am today?

The dark side is when you are with family and friends, and you have paparazzi screaming at you - that's been hard to deal with.

My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.

Being in love with someone who doesn't even know that you exist isn't the worst thing in the world.

Suicide is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets.