When someone gets a job, it better be clear what they did to get it.

Great leaders don't play by the existing rules.

Our job is to execute.

The more I use a matrix, the easier I make it to blame someone else.

I just want you to be motivated by the magnitude of the opportunity.

The more accountable I can make you, the easier it is for you to show youre a great performer.

We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes.

There's a powerful tendency to overcomplicate the whole notion of leadership.

Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.

War's a racket. No doubt. But war is a racket for the politicians, not the soldiers.

It's a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.

Does man Progress? A thousand questions answered yesterday create a thousand questions today.

We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are a tragic contingent.

I think i'm just breathing, that's all. And there's a difference between breathing and being alive.

In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.

I feel like I'm a professional. I've been a professional for a number of years. I'm a businesswoman and a tax lawyer and a professional and so that's how I treat other people.

If you are touched by music you are touched by love in a very pure way.

Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair and rehabilitation.