Great leaders gain authority by giving it away.

Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they're really productive.

It is in disaster, not success, that the heros and the bums really get sorted out.

I was tortured fifteen times, thats total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.

Great leaders gain authority by giving it away.

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy.