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

Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail.

Being driven is not the same as being passionate. Passion is a love for the journey. Drive is a need to reach the destination.

Our struggles are the short term lessons we learn to achieve long term success.

Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail. We very often confuse personality with leadership. In other words, leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person.

Authorities act with themselves in mind. Leaders act with others in mind. Authorities take. Leaders give. Authorities die. Leaders live on.

The most effective leaders are actually better at guarding against danger when they acknowledge it that it exists. Cowards, in contrast, cling to the hope that failure will never happen and may be sloppy in the face of danger - not because they don't acknowledge that it exists, but because they are just too afraid of it to look it in the eye.