Who you are, what your values are, what you stand forthey are your anchor, your north star. You won't find them in a book. You'll find them in your soul.

Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.

I have zero tolerance for people who don't come completely prepared. I expect contribution, I expect attendance, and I expect directors to take trips and visit the company's programs.

Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else.

An important mark of a good leader [is] to know you don’t know it all and never will.

Even under the most difficult circumstances you can have creative flexibility.

There's nothing quite as powerful as people feeling they can have impact and make a difference. When you've got that going for you, I think it's a very powerful way to implement change.

When you have that window of opportunity called a crisis, move as quickly as you can, get as much done as you can. There's a momentum for change that's very compelling.

As much as it's sometimes hard to make choices about where you invest, it's equally hard to make choices about where you don't invest and what you eliminate.

You have to live the mission... love what you do.

Investing in early childhood nutrition is a surefire strategy. The returns are incredibly high.

There is no suffering like a child's, terrified by a secret which it dare not for some reason disclose.

At every moment where language can't go, that's your mind.

I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling stories.

But Steven Bochco was smart; he knew that viewers were smart.

Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.

I bought my first house when I was 24 for £19,500 and it was sold two years ago for £256,000. I've always made profit on my houses.

A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One.

When I went to college, and I went to art school, I started to realize that Warhol was cool and that pop art was fun.

I don't care what anyone does, as long as they go through the copyright office.

Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description.