Leadership is all about people … and getting the most out of people.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Pissing people off doesn't mean you're doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.

The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow.

Respect for leaders by followers can't be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.

Get mad, then get over it.

Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

It was March. The days of March creeping gustily on like something that man couldn't hinder and God wouldn't hurry.

The moment you think you know something inside out, is the moment you stop listening. That's when you go backwards faster than you progressed

Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.

You can never say you're big - I don't think you can ever take anything like that for granted.

In my family, we seem to have a tortured history of not saying what we ought to and not meaning what we do.

Should you be unfortunate enough to have vices, you may, to a certain degree, even dignify them by a strict observance of decorum;at least they will lose something of their natural turpitude.

It is impossible for us to fail when we do our best when we are on the Lord's errand.

Candide is one of those books I read when I was young and that I come back to regularly.

There are two types of people in the business community: those who produce results and those who give you reasons why they didn't.

And there comes a time in your life when you realize that if you don't take the opportunity to be happy, you may never get another chance again.