"The key thing in management is goal setting. In medicine, goal-based approach is particularly important. Management should be aimed at minimizing health damage and, with a high degree of correlation, at reducing mortality"

“When you blow away the foam, you get down to the real stuff.”

Source : T. Boone Pickens (2008). “The First Billion Is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America's Energy Future”, p.84, Crown Business

“Most people have a time-bound awareness. And the reason is they have sacrificed their self for their self-image.”

“Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.”

“Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.”

“I know it's hard to not do well at something, and I know it's hard to need help.”

“Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it.”

“In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone.”

Source : "A Conversation With Michelle Bachelet". www.cfr.org. September 25, 2008.

“Business is all about focus. But with focus comes myopia and to conquer that, I come in to shake things up. To be invited as a keynote speaker is to have a license to interfere and interrupt.”