We are all gifts to each other, and my own growth as a leader has shown me again and again that the most rewarding experiences come from my relationships.

You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.

Don't spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity.

It's easy to decide what you're going to do. The hard thing is deciding what you're not going to do.

Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people... or find a different room.

Ignore the people who tell you it won't work, and hire people who embrace your vision.

Regrets are born of paths never taken.

Recognize that there will be failures, and acknowledge that there will be obstacles. But you will learn from your mistakes and the mistakes of others, for there is very little learning in success.

Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.

Whether you've found your calling, or if you're still searching, passion should be the fire that drives your life's work.

Each day that you're moving toward your dreams without compromising who you are, you're winning

He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things.

We hope that through these trade arrangements, through collaboration in training, in manpower development, and what have you, ASEAN in, say, ten years' time, will be a very different ASEAN.

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

You want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off.

Mind is buddha. This is not our brain; it's not our head.

Relationships are the foundation of leadership.

Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.

A football team is like a piano; you need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.