The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.'

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership.

I'm totally against women in combat, because we live in a culture and a society that imposes on every man the concept of women and children first...If you had a man and a woman trying to go through some dangerous woods, the man's instinct would be to protect the woman. Therefore you weaken the man.

If you do something once, people will call it an accident. If you do it twice, they call it a coincidence. But do it a third time and you've just proven a natural law!

The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It's simply larger than it needs to be. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.'