Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.

You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.

Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

Leaders must earn the trust of their teams, their organizations, and their stakeholders before attempting to engage their support.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together.

Who's calling?""Don't insult me like that, " the voice says.I stop. Was I just insulting?

Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational.

Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

I have a definition of success.

I want to train my kids so where they are the only believers they can stand on their own two feet and teach others.

You need to let yourself feel. Feel it, own it. Then move on

The days of wine and roses laugh and run away like a child at playThrough the meadow land toward a closing doorA door marked "nevermore" that wasn't there before

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

You are alone with everything you love.