To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

How do you fight someone who doesn't care if they get killed? You accommodate them.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.

Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

I believe that forgiving them is god's function, our job is to arrange the meeting.

You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

The effort you direct at finding and developing the person you are is the key to life

No matter what life throws at you, fight with your eyes wide open to fight a good fight.

Survival is the foundation of endurance

I think that theater is the closest medium to music. It's very pure. It's for the elite of the society. It's not for everyone in the society.

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Colour is, on the evidence of language alone, very bound up with the feelings.

The whole Turkish empire is nothing else but a crust cast by Heaven's great Housekeeper to His dogs.

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

In racing, we have a better chance of it happening quicker because we have attracted good people to come to work for us. It's the beginning of a great adventure, and we're looking forward to it.

At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?