You cannot build performance on weaknesses. You can build only on strengths.

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.

Prayer is a path where there is none.

But when one does not complain, and when one wants to master oneself with a tyrant’s grip — one’s faculties rise in revolt — and one pays for outward calm with an almost unbearable inner struggle.

Modern man thinks he loses something-time-when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains- except kill it.

People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.

People are disturbed enough by serial killers, but the whole notion of female violence, particularly maternal violence - the idea of mothers who kill - really unnerves people.

Drowning yourself won't help, she told herself sternly. Now, drowning Will, on the other hand.

If you want to sell a steak, you can't just have the sizzle, you gotta have sauce.

I wouldn't be where I am now if I didn't fail ... a lot. The good, the bad, it's all part of the success equation.

They say 'He cannot be found'. Something that cannot be 'found' is what I desire.

I have a magnificent obsession. All I want to do is change the world ...make it a better place for this and future generations.