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.

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.

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

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.

You will never accept gratitude as a solution to your problems, until you have reached the last stage of grief--acceptance.

Tamaki: Having the courage to be able to admit what you love... enjoying what you love... and being true to yourself... Isn't that also what it means to be strong?

The test of civilization is its estimate of women.

I've learned ... that no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.

They say hard work pays off Well tell the Based God don't quit his day job

You've got your mother in a whirl, she's not sure if your a boy or a girl.

Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in the body and of troubles in the soul.

If it doesn't look easy it is that we have not tried hard enough yet.

Writing is like sausage making in my view; you'll all be happier in the end if you just eat the final product without knowing what's gone into it.

When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.