“The mind can be convinced, but the heart must be won.”

Passion alone can’t cut it. For passion to survive it needs structure. A why without how has little probability of success.

Great leaders and great organizations are good at seeing what most of us can’t see. They are good at giving us things we would never think of asking for.

Be the best friend you can be.

You don’t hire for skills, you hire for attitude. You can always teach skills.

True strength is the courage to ask for help.

Bad leaders care about who is right, good leaders care about who is right.

Focus on long term success but be willing to make short term adjustments to get there.

The true price of leadership is the willingness to place the needs of others above your own.

Every day we make decisions, big and small. Those choices paint a picture of who we are.

A team is not a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people that trust each other.

There are only two ways to influence human behaviour: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.

Let us all be the leaders we wish we had.

A leader is the one who speaks last and acts first.

The role of a leader is not to come up with all the great ideas. The role of a leader is to create an environment in which great ideas can happen.

The quality of a leader cannot be judged by the answers he gives, but by the questions he asks.

Leadership is not about the next election, it’s about the next generation.

If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.