Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy.

A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words.

The first key to leadership is self-control.

The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that "if you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead.

Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others.

In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated merchants or wealthy planters, had been founded by one of its illiterate slaves, who, by sheer force of personality, charisma, and determination, liberated America from foreign rule, united the people, created an alphabet, wrote the constitution, established universal religious freedom, invented a new system of warfare, marched an army from Canada to Brazil, and opened roads of commerce in a free-trade zone that stretched across the continents.

Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy.