Forgetting your mission leads, inevitably, to getting tangled up in details-details that can take you completely off your path.

Sometimes facing opportunity is like staring at the knees of a giraffe.

Nobody wins until we all do.

Leaders identify, articulate, and summarize concepts that motivate others. Most important, they boil concepts down to an understandable idea.

To have no vision of your own means living the vision of someone else.

Perhaps the true mark of a leader is that she or he is willing to stand alone.

A wise person does not fear the edges and fringes, but studies them. Indeed, he or she is often in them, working to make change happen.

It takes people some time to appreciate that their greater resources are often the people they know.

My father was always there for me when I lost. But, then, I never really lost when my father was there.

If someone was to tally the number of human hours wasted in business by people trying to accomplish objectives without being given the authority to do so, we would all be appalled.

As a leader, it is vitally important that you keep in touch with your boss on a regular, sacrosanct basis. Chances are your boss can provide an aerial view that will make your path more clear.

The best teachers are the ones who give you a hard time, they may not intend it, but you can intend to learn!!!

There are so many local nonprofits making a positive impact every day, and yet, oftentimes we don't hear enough about them or their needs.

I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.

President Bush says he needs a month off to unwind. Unwind? When the hell does this guy wind?

No committee could ever come up with anything as revolutionary as a camel - anything as practical and as perfectly designed to perform effectively under such difficult conditions.

The happening that happened was that I met this girl.

L.A. is not a town that supports a lot of theater. Most of the shows don't get through a week or two and then, the audience kind of disappears.

ObamaCare (modeled almost precisely on RomneyCare) is wrong; it was bad medicine; it's bad for the economy, and I will repeal it.

It's fun when you're winning and performing well, but it's also hard because now you get older, you got responsibilities.

If you want less of something, tax it. If you want more of something, don't tax it or reduce the tax burden.