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.

Great leaders don't blame the tools they are given. Great leaders work to sharpen them.

Ideas are like dreams; they will disappear unless we record them. Write a book, a blog, build a company, anything that makes the ideas real.

Truly effective and inspiring leaders aren’t actually driven to lead people; they are driven to serve them.

The ability for a group of people to do remarkable things hinges on how well those people can pull together as a team.

The single best machine to measure trust is a human being. We haven't figured out a metric that works better than our own sort of, like, 'There's something fishy about you.'

It's ok if others share our ideas as long as they build upon them. It's called progress.