“Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.”

If in doubt, don’t. If still in doubt, do what’s right.

Learn to say ‘I don’t know.’ If used when appropriate, it will be often.

Prune – prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.

Everyone’s saying you can’t do anything until you can do everything.

Simply because you do not have evidence that something exists does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn’t exist.

If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.

Whatever your position, reach out to those who know more than you do, and have been around longer than you have. Find those people. Listen carefully. And learn.

There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that’s just a fact.

Every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.

It isn’t making mistakes that’s critical; it’s correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

There are no “knowns.” There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don’t know.

Remember where you came from.

Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.

Let your family, staff, and friends know that you’re still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.

If you try to please everybody, somebody’s not going to like it.

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

Spend more time listening to your heart and less time listening to your ego.

To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

It is your soul’s journey to enroll the ego in the quest for the ultimate victory – the evolution of your own individual consciousness.

If someone corrects you, and you feel offended, then YOU have an EGO problem

Ego says, “Once everything falls into place, I’ll feel peace”. Spirit says, “Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place”.

You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.

Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.