It is commonly believed that innovations create changes - but few ever do. Successful innovations exploit changes that have already happened.

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.

What I’ve learnt is: buy the damn shoes. Kiss the boy. You can lose a life in indecision, and regret is a waste of an emotion.

For those who sincerely seek the truth should not fear the outcome.

If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me

I do not fight with the world but the world fights with me.

The world can teach leadership skills but only Jesus can teach you a leaders heart.

What a leader learns after you've learned it all counts most of all.

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people.

It is wrong to follow the advice of an adversary; nevertheless it is right to hear it, that you may do the contrary; and this is the essence of good policy.

When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.