We become leaders when we accept the responsibility to protect those in our care.

It's better to go slowly in the right direction than go speeding off in the wrong direction.

The next time someone starts listing all the reasons an idea won't work or can't happen, ask them to give 3 reasons it can.

Leadership is like exercise. Do it everyday, the results take time but you will see them. It's the little things.

It is only from the people I've had the good fortune to meet that I am learning the lessons to guide me. Baz Luhrmann, director of 'Moulin Rouge,' for example, has a childlike curiosity about the world. He doesn't pretend to know all the answers - quite the opposite, in fact. He asks loads of questions of everyone.

Focus on money and we will make money. Focus on impact and we will make an impact.

I never imagined working with CEOs, congressmen or the military, yet I make regular visits to the Pentagon, stop by the Capitol now and then and sit down with leaders of all kinds of companies.