Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.

The great leaders that I have worked with are people who have a good sense of empathy with other people. They can walk a factory floor, or walk through a battalion and smell if there's something wrong.

People get work done, not buildings, not staffs in a generic sense, and not plans, but people

Just hit my 75th birthday, I'm feeling great!

Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind.

Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.

Good and solid analysis and a formal way of looking at a problem [are the core ingredients of good decisions].