Forgetting your mission leads, inevitably, to getting tangled up in details-details that can take you completely off your path.

It takes people some time to appreciate that their greater resources are often the people they know.

If you believe you have a just cause, an important message, or a key contribution to make, you will be just as innovative as a college freshman desperate to see his girlfriend six hundred miles away. You will get there any way you can.

To have no vision of your own means living the vision of someone else.

Belief in oneself is a crucial quality of leadership, because 'a house divided against itself cannot stand.' A leader who fluctuates back and forth sends a very wavery signal. Like the soprano who can shatter glass by finding that high note and holding it, a leader who can hold that high note, without wavering, can shatter walls.

My father was always there for me when I lost. But, then, I never really lost when my father was there.

If someone was to tally the number of human hours wasted in business by people trying to accomplish objectives without being given the authority to do so, we would all be appalled.