Pushing yourself to be the best is unsustainable. Simply push yourself to be better than the day before.

It is a luxury to put our interests first. It is an honor to put the interests of others before our own.

Progress is more important than perfection.

People who believe I'm an idiot don't hire me and they don't call.

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.

It's the discipline to understand that the things that might make you rich or things might make you famous are sometimes worth pursuing and sometimes are not.

Trust doesn't develop from always doing the right thing. Trust comes from taking responsibility when we do the wrong thing.