The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.

My life is not a political campaign. I just write about what is on my mind. I just play whatever I feel like playing. Whatever is in my soul at the time is what I want to do. I have, thank god, enough people who are still interested in what I am doing so that I can go out and keep doing it.

Of one thing be certain: if a CEO is enthused about a particularly foolish acquisition, both his internal staff and his outside advisors will come up with whatever projections are needed to justify his stance. Only in fairy tales are emperors told that they are naked.

Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.