There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.