I have found that leadership is leadership is leadership. It applies whether you are in government or in corporate life or in non-profit life.

If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool.

The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve. Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity. An important attribute in successful people is their impatience with negative thinking and negative acting people.

In the military, we are also taught to only use one third of the available decision-making time, so that our subordinates have time to go through their own decision processes when they learn what we want them to do.

The ties that bind us are stronger than the occasional stresses that separate us.

Always be looking for that which you do well and that which you love doing, and when you find those two things together — man, you got it.

Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future