The secret to a successful retirement is to find your retirement sweet spot. The sweet spot is where your passions, what you do best, and what people will pay you to do overlap.

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.

Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.

True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.

The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.

If you have more than three priorities then you don't have any.

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

Many quote scripture, less study it, and even fewer live it. ~T.F. Hodge

You Only Live Once (YOLO)

I wonder..., " she said, "if there was such a thing as time machines, would anyone ever use them to go to the future?

I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence.

I still think people do have racial hang-ups, but I think one of the reasons I can joke about it is people are shedding those racial hatreds.

I don't mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.

A slave in the fields one night He's running along Gets far enough to be a free man And he's feeling so strong

In ethics, prudence is not an important virtue, but in the world it is almost everything.

When you have once taken up a responsibility, you must see it through.

Seven million people I turned on, and only one hundred thousand have come by to thank me.