You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.

You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.

Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

Leaders must earn the trust of their teams, their organizations, and their stakeholders before attempting to engage their support.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together.

You have to decide what you want in life and pursue what you want with all your heart.

I get off on hearing other people's voices. I like voices: they're my favourite things on records.

I've had some great times with actresses, but that's in a movie.

The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.

Chaos and love when hand in hand and oh, the glorious grace of the world because of it.

If there were mistakes, there were mistakes. But a man has to have a line of work, no?

I heard someone say once that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.

What I know for sure is that you feel real joy in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth.

I make something I can look at and say, "That's a good piece of work, and there's some terrific directing and acting in it, and you should be proud of it."