A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable.

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.

Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.

True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.

The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.

If you have more than three priorities then you don't have any.

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he was going out with a rifle in his hand.

My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.

No one in USAID embodied the spirit of compassion and brotherhood that underpins our efforts more than Larry Foley.

Men are a luxury, not a necessity.

The troops may whine and moan, but when they meet the standard, there's a sense of pride.

There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.

Man at his best is a system-breaker, an iconoclast seeking not only variety, but destruction.

If you'd be loved, be worthy to be love

You can not be a conservative if you're going to keep promoting new programs that you're not going to pay for.