Notoriously outspoken, his sentences always punctuated with profanities, General George S. Patton was the epitome of what a leader should be like - or so he thought. Patton believed a leader should look and act tough, so he cultivated his image and his personality to match his philosophy.

Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.

A leader should not take credit when things go right if they are not willing to accept responsibility when things go wrong.

The concept of why is already in the vernacular. It is now a noun. "That company doesn't know their why." "They need to learn their why." "That politician needs to understand his why." We talk about it as a noun. That never existed prior to 2009. That never existed prior to 2006 when I first started articulating it. This is the most amazing thing to me. It has now become a concept. It's part of the way we think about businesses and transactions and decisions.

The value of networking is not measured by the number of people we meet but by the number of people we introduce to others.

A great leader will never sacrifice the people for the numbers.

When I present, I cheat. I only talk about things I care about.