It's more important to do the right thing than to do things right.

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.

Life plays a role of oxymoron. You can't predict the actual sense of it unless you feel it.

Have a scaffold erected in the square. We shall hang a traitor or two before dinner. And perhaps afterwards as well.

What is common to our societies is the development into a managed mass society, with big bureaucracy, managing people. The Russians do it by force. We do it by persuasion.

Reincarnation is simply changing awareness. What you are reincarnating into are different states of mind. The whole show is on the inside.

I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel

Love is the same as being lost,' says Jacques to the dark. 'Except you don't care that you're lost.

You don't have to be educated to be a president.

the wasting of time is the most personal, most private, most intimate form of conversation with oneself, as well as with another.

Luck Doesn't exist, only hard (work) works

It's complicated. On the one hand we're killer apes, and on the other hand we have this metaphysical longing.