The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

High expectations are the key to everything.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual I'm too abstract I think too much.

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.