Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.

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.

All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.

As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.

I'm not a gangster, bro.

If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn't seem like such an elusive prize.

If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room.

Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.

No one masters the heart.

We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said." Love is the only rational act.

When things go right, I read. When things go wrong, I read more.

When we commit violence against an infant girl, we call it child abuse; when we commit violence against an infant boy, we call it circumcision.