What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it is another matter.

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.

Right. Because if you have trouble putting ketchup and mustard on a hot dog, you should totally move on to saving lives.

Imagination means nothing without doing.

A wedding is a ceremony men fund with money they know they don’t have … to prove the love they think they have.

I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next.

The question is who ought to make that decision, the Congress or the commanders? And as you know, my position is clear. I'm a commander guy.

Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness.

Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.

I thought children were pure and innocent, and that was inherently better.

To face death itself should not daunt you. Fear of death is ridiculous, because as long as you are not dead you are alive, and when you are dead there is noting more to worry about!

Feel the wrath of wheat!