We learned that a former prisoner of war had more to teach us about what it takes to find a path to greatness than most books on corporate strategy.

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.

Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.

True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.

The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.

If you have more than three priorities then you don't have any.

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

La mayoría de la muerte de la gente es una farsa, no queda en ellos nada que pueda morir

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death so are statues and inscriptions so is history.

Smell is the mute sense, the one without words.

[Marriage] was the one thing I didn't want to fail at.

Love only brought me lonliness and horror.

The English truly understand the dynamic between buildings and land.

Learn to speak what you feel, and act what you speak.

If you can do only a little. Do what you can. What you cannot enforce, do not command.

My name is Luka I live on the second floor. I live upstairs from you, yes, I think you've seen me before.

But I think you have a right to know what it is you’re not being told.