What is the cost of replacing and bringing up to speed one of your managers, supervisors, or front-line employees who left because they were frustrated with your organization’s leadership?

Leadership is about what’s right for the organization, not what feels right for the leader.

Leaders move among the various stages each day. But effective leaders move among the right stages at the right times.

How much of your time, at your “hourly rate, ” is wasted each year because you’re cleaning up after your employees and fixing issues they’ve created or haven’t resolved themselves?

Managers and leaders cause most of the organizational confusion and frustration by not doing their jobs — their real jobs.

Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener.

All labour is directed towards producing some effect.

If you give an actor any wiggle room to whine in situations where they want to whine, you're gonna whine.

I just started writing stuff to kill time on summer evenings. This is why I'm always telling people who ask me what they need to do to succeed to give up, do something else.

As lives go, I'll take the quietly desperate over the radically bipolar.

To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.

It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.

You are a son to me, that to my father I couldn't be. I love you.

The Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov once said: In a Democracy, portraits of a nation's leader should never exceed the size of a postage stamp. That won't happen so quickly in Russia.

We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization.