(Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation of profit, it is the avoidance of loss

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.

Open-handed generosity and caring for the poor and marginalized as if we were caring for Jesus himself are extensions of our worship.

We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

Competition can damage self-esteem create anxiety and lead to cheating and hurt feelings. But so can romantic love.

Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk.

If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful.

There are ways to minimize the risk if you are a woman working in the Middle East: You can dress modestly, wear the hijab, cover your head, always travel with a man.

Eternity would mean nothing without you. For no power on this earth would I trade my Elena.

Every band needs it's own special chemistry. And Bez was a very good chemist.

There’s always a stigma attached to the word ‘ambition’ and women. I’ve embraced it. Ambition is NOT a four-letter word and women have to embrace that.

I am just a nice, clean-cut Mongolian boy.