Realism is important in foreign policy. You have to be realistic about what you can achieve, and about the pitfalls, and problems along the way, of w….

Secrets can actually be quite important. A work of art that reveals its meaning or its power too quickly is uninteresting. It might not even be a goo….

Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then — and this is the important bit — do nothing at all until you absolutely have to and then make sure everyone d….

Managers’ typical response to my argument about free time is, ‘That’s all well and good, but there are things I have to do.’ Yet we waste so much ti….

Is not living at all not better than living badly?.

To become historically-minded is to be grown-up..

If there's any elements that you see or don't see in the series it will only be because of some legal thing. Not all of the companies like each other….

Confess and be hanged..

This is suffering's lesson: pay attention. The important part might come in a form you do not recognize..

People say that ideas aren't important in business. Okay, people say, maybe an idea for a new product, but the rest is all execution, making it happe….

I argue that once it became clear that the most important function of the CEO was to develop and enact the corporate strategy, that often had the eff….

Someone once wrote that in between the lives we lead and the lives we fantasize about living is the place in our heads where most of us actually live..

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. People know themselves much better than you do. That's why it's important to stop e….

So many see themselves as aggrieved; so few see themselves as aggrievers..

A change imposed is a change opposed..

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive..

I grew up in a family business... that really has provided the core of my belief in American small business, and in America's ability to grow and ope….

I began realizing that it wasn't important for me to concern myself with the perception of truth..

I'm on a search for the truth..

I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for t….

I'm no George Brett, and I probably never will be..