Follow effective action with quiet reflection.

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.

Maintain a persistent focus of what you want. You will attract the divine force to bring it into existence.

Oh! lovely voices of the skyWhich hymned the Saviour's birth, Are ye not singing still on high, Ye that sang, "Peace on earth"?

When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque.

The way the people around you position themselves around you to get in your pockets and in your mind is infuriating to me.

My aim is to play as many games as possible and to go out and be one of the 11 players again.

I'm a freeborn man of the travelling people. Got no fixed abode, and no man is my master. Country lanes and byways were always my ways. I never fancied going faster.

I'm equally terrified of both comedy and drama. The only thing I'm really comfortable with is action.

I only got the opportjnity to co-host a talk show because I failed at news.

Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other faces;Pride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.

It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.