Tolerance is you saying something crazy and me smiling and saying, 'That's nice. '
Culture eats strategy for breakfast.
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
There is nothing worse than doing the wrong thing well.
An employer has no business with a man's personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for a specific performance. . . Any attempt to go beyond that is usurpation. It is immoral as well as an illegal intrusion of privacy. It is abuse of power. An employee owes no "loyalty," he owes no "love" and no "attitudes" - he owes performance and nothing else. . . . . The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths.
A man is not measured by how much he can take and stand but by how fast he regains once fallen.
People at a point of conflict are always the most interesting stories to tell.
On the outside one is a star. But in reality, one is completely alone, doubting everything. To experience this loneliness of soul is the hardest thing in the world.
When Rolling Stone handed me this crazy assignment to be in the studio with James Brown, they had the misapprehension that I'd written for them already just because I claimed my character had.