A true friend is someone with whom protocol is no longer necessary.

My concern is that we live in an economy in which stabbing someone and waiting for them to complain before we remove the knife has become the normal way of doing business. When did we lose sight of the fact that it's not nice to stab people in the first place?

We all have the luxury of looking out for ourselves. Leaders also have the honor of looking out for others.

When you compete against everyone else, no one wants to help you. But when you compete against yourself, everyone wants to help you.

I've been dogmatic to use myself as a case study.

Time and energy. Those are the most valuable sacrifices leaders can make.

One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader's need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process.