To become "memorable" do things that are somewhat unexpected. Dress, or talk, in ways that draw attention. And mostly, don't follow all the "rule for behavior" so closely.

Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.

Successful organizations understand the importance of implementation, not just strategy, and, moreover, recognize the crucial role of their people in this process.

Knowledge is only useful if you do something with it.

You are more likely to acquire power by narrowing your focus and applying your energies, like the sun's rays, to a limited range of activities in a small number of domains.

You can't be normal and expect abnormal returns.

Point at solutions instead of at each other.

The best path to power combines two things: 1) a path that not many are taking and 2) something that you are capable and comfortable with doing.

Most organisations say they want creativity, but really they do not.

My overall recommendation: for decades corporate policy manuals and HR departments have told people they are responsible for their own careers. It's about time people really heeded those warnings.

We give up and don't try. We don't take sufficient chances or risks. We aren't resilient in the face of failure. We follow the "rules" too much and don't push the envelope.

Relationships are built in the silences.

Locks or no locks, you're not going to cage me in.

You always have a choice to know your life and live with the understanding or simply give up, to the daily pressure of life.

Let your existence be enough for a moment.

There's nowhere else to escape to ... Except in a wooden box, that is.

Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

I believe it stands for 'mother I'd like to...befriend.

Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.

Our rights come from God - not man, not a monarch, not a government.

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