“After all, there can be no leadership where there is no team.”

Faster. Stronger. Smarter. More humble. Less ego.

Instead of letting the situation dictate our decisions, we must dictate the situation.

Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes.

Don’t ask your leader what you should do, tell them what you are going to do.

That’s it. When things are going bad: Don’t get all bummed out, don’t get startled, don’t get frustrated. No. Just look at the issue and say: Good.

Leaders must always operate with the understanding that they are part of something greater than themselves and their own personal interests.

Remember to keep your ego in check. Don’t judge people.

Stop researching every aspect of it and reading all about it and debating the pros and cons of it, Start doing it.

Plans and orders must be communicated in a manner that is simple, clear, and concise. Everyone

Discipline equals freedom.

If the plan is simple enough, everyone understands it, which means each person can rapidly adjust and modify what he or she is doing. If the plan is too complex, the team can’t make rapid adjustments to it, because there is no baseline understanding of it.

Our egos don’t like to take blame.

It’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.

In order to convince and inspire others to follow and accomplish a mission, a leader must be a true believer in the mission.

You have to BE VIGILANT. You have to be ON GUARD. You have to HOLD THE LINE on the seemingly insignificant little things— things that shouldn’t matter—but that do.

Don’t try to plan for every contingency. Doing so will only overburden you and weigh you down so that you cannot quickly maneuver.

You know you’re a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.

Never neglect details. When everyone’s mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

Respect for leaders by followers can’t be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.

Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.

I am ruled by emotion. She is a fickle leader of a volatile kingdom, where conniving skies cast intemperate clouds over my constitution.

Good leaders are scarce; so I’m following myself.