We are facing extreme volatility.

The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.

Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.

Leadership is demonstrated at the moment of need. You learn to be a leader by acting, by doing

When you want to turn around a company, you want to make sure that the solution is coming from inside.

You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.

Employees are your most valuable assets. They are the heart and guts of a company. This doesn't mean that from time to time, you aren't going to do what is good for the company.

I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.

Being a good leader today doesn't mean you'll be a good leader 10 years from now. You have to adapt to the times

Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.

Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.

Forget it. Never explain

Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.

I'm currently in the middle of a depression. I couldn't really tell you what set it off, but I think it stems from my cowardice, which confronts me at every turn.

... I am with fire between my teeth and still nothing but my blank page.

As soon as I put my foot on Indian soil, my painting underwent a change not only in subject and spirit but in technique.

Really, all you need to become a good knitter are wool, needles, hands, and slightly below-average intelligence. Of course superior intelligence, such as yours and mine, is an advantage.

You see what stupid folk my publishers are; but they are all alike.

One thing that was inspiring to me in my research about [Georgia] O'Keeffe was to learn that in addition to her success she had very hard times, and times when she was frustrated and uninspired.

It's tough. I mean the thing is that people don't realize how much people are looking at you and judging you and constantly try to, I guess, watch you fail, and hoping you do fail.

I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.