“Leaders succeed or fail depending on whether or not they clarify role expectations and keep their promises.”

“Leaders set the agenda for the future.”

“Once a good model gets inside you, it can inform and guide you throughout a lifetime.”

“A better model of leadership means more effective leadership and better business results.”

“Transformation is an acquired taste—not for the faint of heart.”

“When we step into positions of leadership, we make a whole set of promises we may not know we are making.”

“There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.”

“In western societies many people become sick in their thirties, develop serious medical conditions in their forties and are disabled in their fifties.”

“Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.”

“When facing society, the man most concerned, the man who is to do the most and contribute the most, has the least say. It's taken for granted that he has no voice and the reasons he could offer are...”

“most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.”

“...Data itself... was tolerable. It was the constant nerve-web-expanding pain of context that would kill him.”

“... unfools of unbeing ... means quite clearly people who are too stereotyped to be eccentric people who are too dead spiritually to exist at all and who call alive individual fools”

“[E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others.”

“We live individual lives with the consciousness of death and awareness of the past. But the most important part of that sentence is the individual part. Let yourself be humbled by the experiences p...”