Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.

Management must manage!

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.

Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.

Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

The character of society coincides with how we treat our most vulnerable members of society.

The way to have power is to take it.

The part in Aleppo, what [people] call it the eastern part, is occupied by the terrorists for the last three years, and they have been using the civilians as human shields.

I believe a young player will run through a barbed wire fence for you. An older player looks for a hole in the fence.

Hey Ridley, that Machometer is acting screwy. It just went off the scale on me.

Any car which holds together for a whole race is too heavy.

The most important part of vehicle maintenance is clean windows, so if you are broken down you will enjoy the beauty of the view.

We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness.

Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.