“Leadership requires using power to influence the thoughts and actions of other people.”

Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination.

Keep focused on the substantive issues. To make a decision means having to go through one door and closing all others.

Innovation grows out of membership and a sure sense of responsibility people feel for their work and the organizations that employ them.

Imagination in business is the ability to perceive opportunity.

Leaders adopt a personal and active attitude toward goals.

In other words, leaders are visionaries and managers operate within those established visions.

The direction an organization takes. The net result of this influence is to change the way people think about what is desirable, possible, and necessary.

The influence a leader exerts in altering moods, evoking images and expectations, and in establishing specific desires and objectives determines

Leaders are active instead of reactive, shaping ideas instead of responding to them.

If you want to understand entrepreneurs, you have to study the psychology of the juvenile delinquent. They don’t have the same anxiety triggers that we have.

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere.

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

Although the theory of relativity makes the greatest of demands on the ability for abstract thought, still it fulfills the traditional requirements of science insofar as it permits a division of the world into subject and object (observer and observed) and, hence, a clear formulation of the law of causality.

I’m suspicious of any mode of transportation that requires a running start.

First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.