One does not "manage" people. The task is to lead people.

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.

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

You can’t rid yourself of freedom the way you’d rid yourself of lice, brother.

Illnesses represent human judgments of conditions that exist in the natural world. They are essentially social constructions - products of our own creation.

What kind of nation are we when we give tax breaks to billionaires, but we can't take care of the elderly and the children.

I moved to L.A. right out of high school, but not to act. I think I chose it because it was on the same time zone as Seattle, where I'm from.

I don't know too many people because I stay at my house, I write songs, I go to the store.

Maybe the greatest favour a spouse can tender is to overlook what you can't.

Women are the more important members of relationships. Women are the survivors, the nurturers and the bosses, despite men pretending it's a male dominated society.

I think passion is the magnet to anything.

So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.