Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government

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 was a time after 'Lady Sings the Blues' and 'Mahogany' and all those romantic movies: I became this romantic figure on the street in a very special way.

Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm of static fixity, mechanism, materialism.

Havin lunch and debatin Ferrari prices. 23 and goin through a midlife crisis.

The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance.

Your job, with all that mental training and suffering, is just to push your line of breaking so far your opponent can't find it.

Dangerous principles impose upon our understanding, emasculate our spirits, and spoil our temper.

What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in decay.

Monk encouraged me to emancipate the drums from their subservient role as timekeepers.

Almost all the shows I've been connected with have been extremely well cast. They're playing the show, not just doing the songs.

I'm a full-time mom. I've never felt as prepared, as before maternity.