Leading is a skill, not a gift. You're not born with it, you learn how.

You can't fool all the people, not even most of the time. And people, once unfooled, talk about the experience.

The tragedy is that society (your school, your boss, your government, your family) keeps drumming the genius part out. The problem is that our culture has engaged in a Faustian bargain, in which we trade our genius and artistry for apparent stability.

Every single important thing we do is something we didn't use to be good at, and in fact, might be something we used to fear.

The only long-term motivation is self motivation. So hire people who are self motivated and get out of their way.

If you believe that a given situation should make you unhappy, then it will, and the unhappiness will then reinforce the condition.

The universal truth is beyond question-the only people who excel are those who have decided to do so.