Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.

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.

It is in the dark times that the light of friendship shines brightest. (The Walk - Chapter 19, Page 122

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There is always something behind patience and impatience! Be careful enough to understand these two things any time you meet anybody

What is important is to keep learning to enjoy challenge and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.

I figured if I told it to myself often enough, I would start believing it.

I tell my story, not because it is unique, but because it is not. It is the story of many girls.

If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.

You might as well tell God what you think. He already knows it anyway.