Don't get discouraged: it is often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
Listen if you want to be heard
Five years from now, you’re the same person except for the people you’ve met and the books you’ve read.
A leader must listen to those under their supervision.
Be quick but do not hurry.
When people ask me now if I miss coaching UCLA basketball games, the national championships, the attention, the trophies, and everything that goes with them, I tell them this: I miss the practices.