“Fit no stereotypes. Don’t chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team’s mission.”

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.

Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.

The greatest gifts my parents gave to me were their unconditional love and a set of values.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.

Somehow forgiveness, with love and tolerance, accomplishes miracles that can happen in no other way.

If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can’t accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

It may be difficult to understand why a test comes our way, but we must never forget that the test is accomplishing refining and purification.

As long as you are alive, you will either live to accomplish your own goals and dreams or be used as a resource to accomplish someone else’s.

No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.