Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions

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-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

Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept called rationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic and powerful intuition

Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he is buying.

I don't like anything in the mainstream and they don't like me.

Some people are doomed from birth because their environment is so toxic.

We must have moral education in the schools, anti-bullying programs, but this does not mean programs to feminize boys.

The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability.

It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.

If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar.

Anything may be possible in America, but a Palin presidency is virtually implausible.

I can personally feel the relief myself in my audiences when I bring up Obama because there was a lot of anti-Obama sentiment out there before the capture of bin Laden.