Successful organizations understand the importance of implementation, not just strategy, and, moreover, recognize the crucial role of their people in this process.

Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.

Knowledge is only useful if you do something with it.

You are more likely to acquire power by narrowing your focus and applying your energies, like the sun's rays, to a limited range of activities in a small number of domains.

You can't be normal and expect abnormal returns.

Point at solutions instead of at each other.

The best path to power combines two things: 1) a path that not many are taking and 2) something that you are capable and comfortable with doing.

Most organisations say they want creativity, but really they do not.

My overall recommendation: for decades corporate policy manuals and HR departments have told people they are responsible for their own careers. It's about time people really heeded those warnings.

We give up and don't try. We don't take sufficient chances or risks. We aren't resilient in the face of failure. We follow the "rules" too much and don't push the envelope.

Being memorable equals getting picked.

An airport is a potent place, a point of reunions and departures. For the traveler, it's a crossroads at the moment of decision, a flashpoint that separates intention from retreat.

I earned a mater's degree in journalism and took the first job offered, as a sports writer. Instead of chasing my own fame, I wrote about famous athletes chasing theirs.

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

I'm conservative on some issues, and I'm progressive on others.

I just hate going to the gym, unless I need to do cardio once in a while. I think gymming makes you stiff and takes your aura away.

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.

The despairing soul is a rebel.

The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.

Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.".

And I Jack, the Pumpkin King, have grown so tired of the same old thing.