Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.

What's measured improves

Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.

The most helpless person is the one who is helpless in reforming himself.

A surprising number [of novels] have been read aloud to me, and I like all if moderately good, and if they do not end unhappily-against which a law ought to be passed.

My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

Art is the signature of man.

I never know if the person I'm shaking hands with is coming to kill me. That's something you have to live with when you cross the lines.

Don't organize for any other purpose than mutual benefit to the employer and the employee.

Studying creativity is not an elite distraction, but provides one of the most exciting models for living.

I'm interested, I suppose, in tortured power.

I don't believe in Jesus or God. But I do believe that fundamentalists in religion or anything else are bad, and that they have more hate than love.