We don't want to be something for everybody, we want to be everything for some people.

The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.

Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.

Leadership is demonstrated at the moment of need. You learn to be a leader by acting, by doing

When you want to turn around a company, you want to make sure that the solution is coming from inside.

You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.

Employees are your most valuable assets. They are the heart and guts of a company. This doesn't mean that from time to time, you aren't going to do what is good for the company.

I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.

Being a good leader today doesn't mean you'll be a good leader 10 years from now. You have to adapt to the times

Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.

Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.

Small people have small minds, and thus deride big dreamers.Small people have small hearts, and thus disparage big chancers.Small people have small souls, and thus disdain big achievers.

A woman sees the strength and potentials in a man and pushes him through support to be the very best. A girl sees him as less than he is capable of achieving.

Which was just well: goodbyes had never been my strong suit anyway, and lately my life had felt like an unbroken series of them. Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.

Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.

Let me say this: I only expect the black media to uphold the standards of excellence in journalism and when you do that, you have to go in with a neutral mind.

Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.

Politically popular speech has always been protected: even the Jews were free to say ‘Heil Hitler.’

Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves

If you think that someone is out to steal everything you have, you're either paranoid or a member of the middle class.

Once IBM gains control of a market sector, they almost always stop innovation. They prevent innovation from happening.