Leaders volunteer to go first into danger. Their willingness to sacrifice for us is the reason we're inspired to follow.

The true price of leadership is the willingness to place the needs of others above your own. Great leaders truly care about those they are privileged to lead and understand that the true cost of the leadership privilege comes at the expense of self-interest.

The goal is not simply to 'work hard, play hard.' The goal is to make our work and our play indistinguishab le.

I try to find, celebrate and teach leaders how to build platforms that will inspire others.

If our leaders are to enjoy the trappings of their position in the hierarchy, then we expect them to offer us protection. The problem is, for many of the overpaid leaders, we know that they took the money and perks and didn’t offer protection to their people. In some cases, they even sacrificed their people to protect or boost their own interests. This is what so viscerally offends us. We only accuse them of greed and excess when we feel they have violated the very definition of what it means to be a leader.

The responsibility of leadership is not taken, it is given. Only when others choose to follow us can we truly lead.

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