As I was coming up in business, screwing up was not an option in any form.

What I've come to realize is that emotional intelligence, which I define as buoyancy, was the only way I knew how to lead, and is, in my option, the only way to inspire real change.

As buoyancy is not contrary to other characteristics of leadership, including decisiveness, accountability and performance standards, I don't ever think it can be self-defeating.

The secret is to be prepared, to draw on the strengths of the people around you, and most importantly, to instill confidence that your team will step up and find a solution.

At the end of the day it's really easy to be a great leader when things are going well. The real test, whether or not you believe in being an emotionally intelligent leader, is when things go wrong.

As a sensitive and highly intuitive person in the command-and-control corporate world, I always felt miscast.

Mandela stands alone in possessing all of the qualities of other great men, but has one quality which is transcendent... his ability to forgive and to place others above himself.

My grandfather used to say to me when I was a boy, "Getting knocked down is no big prize - it's getting up that's the real trick." I couldn't agree more.

True buoyant leaders can never communicate in percentage points, or charts and figures. First and foremost, they must be storytellers, communicating with their hearts, not heads.

Maintaining patience, being generous, and helping your peers takes time, and no small amount of emotional fortitude. But it brings an exponential difference in your team's ability to problem-solve.

Survival in the demand economy depends on and requires experimentation, risk taking, and trial and error.

Do you order righteousness of the people and forget yourselves while you recite the Scripture? Then will you not reason?

Listen to the voice of God and a time will come when you will have an inheritance of all nations

You don't fight the battles you know you will win, its the ones that everyone says you will lose.

Get yourself a notebook and write in it EVERY night for two weeks. Then stop if you can. If you can't, you're a writer.

Money has never been important to me. I come from garbage. I'm a sewer rat who made it here. I have no interest in money and never have.

There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.

You can be the lead in your own life.

Aikido is based on the projection of love.

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season.