What could be more important than equipping the next generation with the character and competence they need to become successful

Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty, integrity, a high energy drive, a balanced ego and the drive to get things done.

Nobody has ever said in the United States government that we are going to war next month. No decision has been made by the president because, as he said to the United Nations, he wants the United Nations to live up to its responsibilities and he wants Saddam Hussein to cooperate.

I think you can improve on that natural ability with training and exposure to great leaders of the past and to management theories.

You can't make someone else's choices. You shouldn't let someone else make yours.

An organization that is not facing up to people who are not getting the job done, is going to have difficulties.

Only when you have got a clear statement of what you want to achieve, do you ask yourself how you are going to achieve it. In the military we are taught never to go for a single answer, no matter how obvious that might be.