My feeling about executive bonuses is that any candidate for a chief executive job who even raises the issue of bonuses should be dismissed out of hand.

Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.

Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet

When the world is predictable you need smart people. When the world is unpredictable you need adaptable people.

Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.

Organizations are communities of human beings, not collections of human resources

An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of "human resources".

Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing.

Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions

Strategy-making is an immensely complex process involving the most sophisticated, subtle, and at times subconscious of human cognitive and social processes.

Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense

One day I wish to die, but today, I wish to live.

When you're doing what's right, on and off the field, the Lord steps in and plays a part.

Success is not about money and power. Real success is about relationships. There's no point in making $50 million a year if your teenager thinks you're a jerk and you spend no time with your wife.

I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.

Since it [architecture] is music in space, as it were a frozen music.

I always like a charity with people who don't speak English because I get them to do all kinds of things around my house.

See God in every person, place, and thing, and all will be well in your world.

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.

In the end, I play a lot of friends and I really think it's about time that some ethnic girls get out there in the lead part. So we're developing something.

I never think about any of my accomplishments and I always get butterflies in my stomach and I never get too comfortable with the status.