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.

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.

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

Knowledge is only useful if you do something with it.

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.

Give your weakness to one who helps.

God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress.

We might be a bit slow on some things down in the South, but we know murder.

I like to talk about things when it pertains to a band. I like to talk about things that matter and music.

I never would rule out a great character or a great story. I don't care what the forum is. If I get to tell a story that I'm excited about, I'm in.

May your happiest days of the past be your saddest days of your future.

But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .

I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.