We know there is a problem with communication but we are not going to discuss it in front of the entire staff.

A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.

Due to budget cutbacks, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.

If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun.

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch.

Don't hire a master to paint you a masterpiece and then assign a roomful of schoolboy artists to look over his shoulder and make suggestions.

Managers must have the discipline not to keep pulling up the flowers to see if their roots are healthy.

To keep an organization young and fit, don't hire anyone until everybody's so overworked they'll be glad to see the newcomer no matter where he sits.

"Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.

You must have a definite purpose of life. To reach that purpose, you must be flexible.

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

I modeled for 4 years before I felt like I had my big break.

Surrender to what you know and you'll know more.

Power is only important as an instrument for service to the powerless.

I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers.

Throughout your life advance daily, becoming more skilful than yesterday, more skilful than today. This is never-ending.

Life is too short to spend forty to fifty hours around people who do nothing but stress you out and make you desire to go stick your head in a blender.

Women have much to tell us. Women are capable of seeing things in a different angle. Women can pose questions that we men cannot understand.

The end is near," Moridin said. "The Wheel has groaned its final rotation, the clock has lost its spring, the serpent heaves its final gasps.