Men die the way they lived.
Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
You should always stand up for what you believe and never stand down to promise or protect your career.
I have always felt that the great lottery of life is unfair. The fact is that I was thrown up on the stage of life called Australia. You don't choose where you are thrown on to this stage. So universal health, universal education, of course plenty of food and clean water.
Only in winter can you tell which trees are truly green. Only when the winds of adversity blow can you tell whether an individual or a country has steadfastness.
The only limits are, as always, those of vision.
Leadership is like beauty - it's hard to define but you know it when you see it.
History has shown that a country most effectively speaks with one voice. When nationally elected officials work together, build consensus, and provide leadership, the American people will follow.
The next thing is: we can make IBM even better. We brought IBM back but we're gunning for leadership.
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth.
The team developer realizes that at times the leadership 'torch' must be passed on to others. This empowerment of others serves a dual purpose; it helps them hone their own team-building skills and it brings a fresh approach, perhaps even a special expertise, to the group's efforts.
Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back -- For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
For a lot of women, one of the hardest things about leadership is the desire to be liked by everyone. That's often inconsistent with leadership. It's certainly inconsistent with taking positions on very controversial issues.
Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.
Careful, intelligent listening is a crucial step on the road to organizational success.
Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.
A duplicitous country with a duplicitous leadership is going to give us more duplicity. And that duplicity is going lead us off an abyss. That's going to happen.
I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.
