New ideas need audiences like flowers need bees. No matter how bright and colorful, they will die unless others work to spread them

Putting yourself first is not selfish. Quite the opposite. You must put your happiness and health first before you can be of help to anyone else.

A poor leader will tell you how many people work for them. A great leader will tell you how many people they work for.

A leader must be inspired by the people before a leader can inspire the people.

A leader's job is not just to get the best out of their people-a leader's job is to make more leaders.

Pilots, to a large degree, are like salesmen. They have to be confident to be good at their jobs. They have to practice relentlessly and plan out all the scenarios of the things that could happen when they're out there. Nothing is more important than preparation. They are also mighty competitive, both as individuals and as squadrons.

It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.