Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it is another matter.

The next thing to be said about what long-range planning is not, is that it does not deal with future decisions. It deals with the futurity of present decisions. Decisions exist only in the present. The question that faces the long-range planner is not what we should do tomorrow.

It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem - which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.

Our job in life is to make a positive difference, not prove we're right.

Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right.

Morale in an organization does not mean that "people get along together"; the test is performance not conformance.