To be a manager requires more than a title, a big office, and other outward symbols of rank. It requires competence and performance of a high order.

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.

Cine n-ar dori să moară visând că moare?

Sometimes you have to walk through the fire, in order to reach your calling.

Borrowed thoughts like borrowed money only show the poverty of the borrower.

People who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they’d never admit in normal conversation.

Later on, towards the end of their lives, I thanked her. I said, "Mom, you were really tough." She said, "I wasn't tough! I always believed in you."

You’ve already lost the battle if you’re afraid to fight.

The scariest people are usually the sweetest.

I think a lot of men just automatically like to lie, because they feel like their protecting a women's feelings.

Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.