When Henry Ford said, "The customer can have a car in any color as long as it's black," he was not joking.

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.

It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: "If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great.

But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.

The blessing always comes back to the door of the author.

A lottery is a tax on stupidity.

I feel great, I'm happy with my look, and that comes with age and feeling confident.

So the most natural thing to me is to stay as pure to or real to or close to who I am as possible.

Which was why, some six hours later, Alexia Maccon's daughter was born inside the head of an octomaton in the presence of her husband, a comatose werewolf dandy, and a French inventor.

A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that.

Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.

Choice springs from the totality of the person. Thus, to study, to analyze what a person is, does not eliminate the idea of freedom.