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

I go into every meeting, into every room and for every speech understanding the standard deviation, the Bell Curve. I know there are about 10-15 percent of people in the room, who say, "I've been trying to say this for years. Finally. I agree. Yes, yes, yes." I know there are about 15 percent of the people in the room who think I'm an idiot, who think I don't know what I'm talking about, who think I'm naive or I have oversimplified everything. The majority who are open to the ideal.

Leadership is neither a rank nor a title. It is a choice. The choice to provide care and protection for those for whom we are responsible.

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

We learn most not from all of the things that go right. We learn most when everything goes wrong.

Vision is the ability to talk about the future with such clarity it is as if we are talking about the past.

Some good leaders are rough around the edges and some leaders are difficult. Some have difficult personalities and some are really nice to be around, but those are not the qualifications. The qualifications are their desire to see us achieve more, their desire to push us to be the best we can be. Not for their selfish gain, but because they believe that we have something to offer.