Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.

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.

By accepting fear in our life, we automatically allow it to rule over us

Parents are labelling, criticizing and reproaching the child on any account

I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.

UXORIOUSNESS, n. A perverted affection that has strayed to one's own wife.

I was a fashion addict by the time I was 11 years old. I'd wear a miniskirt and patent-leather boots.

It hurts because it mattered.

My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues.

You have to learn how to do each book. It's a different world, a different show.

You could write all the IDEAS of all the movies, my own included, on the head of a pin.

I love to laugh and well, who doesn't?