Personal relationships are often based on affection - professional relationships can have affection but they must have mutual understanding, trust and respect.

A mere 7% of employees today fully understand their company's business strategies and what's expected of them in order to help achieve company goals.

Process improvement programs are like teaching people how to fish. Strategy maps and scorecards teach people where to fish.

Consistent alignment of capabilities and internal processes with the customer value proposition is the core of any strategy execution.

Without strong visionary leadership, no strategy will be executed effectively.

It bears repeating: you don't have to be good at everything.

Managing risk is very different from managing strategy. Risk management focuses on the negative-threats and failures rather than opportunities and successes.

Screening out peer pressure and conventional wisdom. It is so powerful, that most of us aren't even aware of how much it is influencing our decisions.

If you're the smartest person in the room, it can sometimes be hard to learn to delegate - the person to whom you're delegating will do the task worse than you would - and it will annoy you!

As a leader, it is often better to ask the right questions and listen than to have all the answers.

The better strategy is to focus on strengths and surround yourself with people who can complement your skills. However, you have to first do the analysis.

A dream you once were, A dream of all my realities, A dream I can no long strive forIn the wake of my manly betayals

Create new avenues in your life by removing toxic people who defeat your purpose.

I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.

I think of myself as still being about five.

Meditation is when we go beyond incarnation, beyond all cycles, to immortality, to something that is not transient.

[Donald] Trump is a big visionary guy, not a detail guy, obviously.

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

We're still just the world's premium brand of ape.

Know full well that patience is the best means of succeeds.

Hell, I don't know if he speaks French.