No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate.

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.

There was something about her playing... a knowledge of darkness in the most extreme form.

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again?

The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution.

The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem.

Ideas are nothing, doing is everything

If you're an enthusiast and you love the world like I do, it comes naturally. But I think charity must become more fun to give, more interactive and imaginative.

I think that the real religion is about the understanding that if we can only still our egos for a few seconds, we might have a chance of experiencing something that is divine in nature.

Nobody ever died of laughter.

I think what we're talking about is a sense of fashion as laboratory work. I mean, we are not scientific, of course, but we are looking for ideas all the time.

The second time I went to jail, I was like, 'okay, this is not the move.'