“Trust is the glue that holds an org together & the lubricant that moves it forward.”

If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool.

My own experience is that you get as much information as you can and then you pay attention to your intuition, to your informed instinct.

One of the greatest talents of all is the talent to recognize and to develop talent in others.

Don’t let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.

Be careful what you choose: You may get it.

Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.

Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.

It is not the role of the United States to dictate change, but to enter into discussions with our friends.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‘we have a problem, let’s go and get it’.

Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.

The best way to create a winning team is to train them, give them everything they need to get the job done and second, make sure they know what the job is and what the job will be. So you connect strategy to resources.

You should never be so involved with your position/job that when the position is gone your entire self image is gone with it.

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.

Leaders have followers. The primary role of a leader is to convey to those followers a sense of purpose, vision, and mission.

Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.

Get mad, then get over it.

It’s terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

I’ve learned, That when your newly born grandchild holds your little finger in his little fist, that you’re hooked for life.

The issue is that if you hold onto the resentment against yourself, you’re just going to recreate that destructive pattern in different forms because unconsciously it’s still a belief system that limits you.

I’m not sure what the future holds but I do know that I’m going to be positive.

Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.

We are so much more than skin can hold.

I think it’s important that we don’t all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything’s fine.