Leaders identify, articulate, and summarize concepts that motivate others. Most important, they boil concepts down to an understandable idea.

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.

Sometimes facing opportunity is like staring at the knees of a giraffe.

Know more about the situation you're facing than a reporter who is writing a major article would.

A wise person does not fear the edges and fringes, but studies them. Indeed, he or she is often in them, working to make change happen.

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.