It is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass.

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.

Anything you say can and will be used against you, so only say my name.

For most secrets are kept by these: the darkness, the silence, and the cat.

You know when you have a good relationship with someone when you are just perfectly happy to be quiet and just hang out and do nothing.

What I did was pour out about a gallon of Chanel Number Five and put a burning wedding invitation to it, and boom, I'm recycling.

Ernest [Hemmingway] was always ready to lend a helping hand to the one on the rung above him.

Maybe the body is taking responsibility where the mind is not. It's scrapbooking for us.

Curb Your Enthusiasm, is not so much about Hollywood. It's more about Larry's weaknesses.

If Ayn Rand were an up-and-coming author today, she wouldn't write about steel or railroads, it would be Net Neutrality.

If you are a conscious human being who has opinions about the world, then you will unconsciously put your own perspective into the book.

Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift.