When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

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.

In spite of all - Be Happy.

I would die for you. You know that. I would die without you. If it were not for you, I would be dead a hundred times over these past five years.

You have the choice of deliberately directing your thinking, or allowing other forces to dictate your desires and attitudes.

To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile?

My argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That's where it should be.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

Kitten." His voice was thick with something I couldn't name. "This is the part... where you don't have a choice.

We are growing up. We are growing up! Out of the idiocies - the ignorances of racism and sexism and ageism and all those ignorances.

The illustrators work so much harder on the books than the writers do. I mean, that's so much work doing what they do, and it's terrible for them.

I like the performing part, it gives me a huge rush but it still makes me nervous. Being in front of large crowds is intimidating to me and I feel myself withdrawing.