The heart of change is in the emotions.

The central issue is never strategy, structure, culture, or systems. The core of the matter is always about changing the behavior of people.

Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome.

The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.

Leadership defines what the future should look like, aligns people with that vision, and inspires them to make it happen despite the obstacles.

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.

Without credible communication, and a lot of it, the hearts and minds of others are never captured.

A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.

We learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us.

Changing behavior is less a matter of giving people analysis to influence their thoughts than helping them to see a truth to influence their feelings.

Anyone in a large organization who thinks major change is impossible should probably get out.

Yessir, some things is sin 'cause God says so. Some things is sin 'cause they hurt other people. And some things is just pure-dee stupid.

Hope is inner strength and believe in a brighter tomorrow.

And seeing ignorance is the curse of God Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot.

A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor.

In 1958, I was a delegate to the Atoms for Peace conference in Geneva.

Nowadays, as soon as a striker scores three goals, everyone starts asking him about it.

In every heart there is an inner room, where we can hold our greatest treasures and our deepest pain.

To be a leader is to be awake and alert, to be dissatisfied at all times

I want to be like the athletes who seem stuck in time. When you see them at 50, you say they probably can still run like a champ.