There's an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

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.

It takes vision and courage to create- it takes faith and courage to prove.

A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over.

Oddly enough, I'm not a particularly judgmental person. I just don't have a lot of filtering when I'm in 'tiger mother' mode. I say what comes into my head.

Sure, I can sing a country song, but so can a lot of people.

It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.

You come to realize that only one person can tell you what's expected of you, and that's you.

I believe in characters as vehicles of exposition. Their voices are full of hidden clues, and I like to listen to them.

Your first instinct when you see a man on the ground is to go down on him.

In one day, I got mistaken for three different actresses: Wendy Williams, Sherri Shepherd, and Star Jones.

Ah! the clock is always slow; it is later than you think.