Often people freeze under severe pressure, but that says nothing about their ultimate capability- only their level of preparation.

Leadership means realizing potential-in yourself and in the people you lead.... The leader and followers cocreate their identities and performance.

What great executives do is not magic. Their performance is made possible by specific, identifiable skills.

The principles that make someone a master in the chief executive role deal with whether or not they can thrive in an environment of ongoing duress, and teach others how to do so.

Knowledge is the accumulation of information whereas intelligence is one's ability to process information to render good decisions.

The central premise of great leadership is recognizes that fundamental fact, that not of us are fixed entities, and taking responsibility for making sure that we bring out our people's best selves.

The intelligence gap is essentially a shortage of executives with superior thinking skills who are needed by every business, as compared with the number of decision-making positions available.

Once an individual is given a taste of the gratification that comes from triumph, and the tools to bring it about, they will spend a lifetime in its ongoing pursuit.

Raise your children with right values and education. You may end up living frugal but you will die rich else you will live rich but die poor.

I will never have greater respect than for the man that realizes he was wrong and graciously admits it without a single excuse.

Portals of divinity are everywhere. I believe that children may enter these divine portals easier, because they are seeking for answers in the purest way.

You want a messenger boy, call Western Union.

Where they couldn't pick holes in our arguments they would drive horses and carriages through my character.

I grew up in a dysfunctional family.

Competition is overrated. In practice it is quite destructive and should be avoided wherever possible. Much better than fighting for scraps in existing markets is to create and own new ones.

A giraffe has a black tongue twenty-seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to say. He just goes on giraffing.

Romantic dramas? I love The Notebook. Titanic was great. Classic.

Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing only a giant boa constrictor. There is no context which would make it explicable.