There's nothing so useless than executing a task efficiently when it actually never should have been executed at all.

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.

sometimes a man must fight so hard for life that he doesn't have time to live it.

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.

Your mine, angel. And I won't let anything change that.

Every time we buy a CD or download a song, the artist is paid for their work. You might not know that this isn't the case when a musician's work is played on the radio.

Women have so much power that even hearing the word power frightens them.

There are only two types of girls: the type that you marry and the type that you play around with and then break up with. But you're somewhere in between.

I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition.

No behavior can be changed before it's acknowledged. And no addiction is beyond the reach of Love.

By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it - and what other things you don't hear - you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.