“You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.”

Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.

I want to see policies that encourage every American to vote, not make it more difficult to vote.

The best method of overcoming obstacles is the team method.

There is no such thing as an unimportant person in an organization.

Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

One of the fondest expressions around is that we can’t be the world’s policeman. But guess who gets called when suddenly someone needs a cop.

All values are important, everyone who has ever touched my life in some way was a mentor for good or bad. Life is a blend, and a person is a blend of all the influences that have touched their lives.

Good leaders must know how to reward those who succeed and know when to retrain, move, or fire ineffective staff.

As a leader you set the tone for your entire team. Communicate your vision.

You can’t get it all done yourself. The best leaders are not afraid of picking people who are better than they are and who may one day replace them.

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

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer is “no.” That’s not America.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.

Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

The most we can say of democracy or freedom is that they give our personal abilities a little more influence on our well-being.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait, it’s more so how we behave while we are being patient that separates us.

She had it all, brains and body and the ability to tell me to go to hell whenever I deserved it. Love, at its finest.

A man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

Show me a man of average ability but extraordinary desire and I will show you a winner everytime.

Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

Something that i’m really proud of myself for is my ability to be able to digest food.

The sound of silence has the ability to teach the loudest lessons.