The Mongols consumed a steady diet of meat, milk, yogurt, and other dairy products, and they fought men who lived on gruel made from various grains. The grain diet of the peasant warriors stunted their bones, rotted their teeth, and left them weak and prone to disease. In contrast, the poorest Mongol soldier ate mostly protein, thereby giving him strong teeth and bones.

The first key to leadership is self-control.

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.

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.

If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.

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

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