I have friends who are majorly into the cosplay culture and have urged me to go to a convention for no other reason than to meet others like me.

Listening is not understanding the words of the question asked, listening is understanding why the question was asked in the first place.

If you want to achieve anything in this world, you have to get used to the idea that not everyone will like you.

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.

The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve.

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

Wal-Mart's size and scale is so vast they literally have the ability to change the face of the entire country. If Wal-Mart were to make a decision tomorrow to refuse to sell a single product made with partially hydrogenated oils, for example, we'd probably see rates from heart disease decline a few years later. That's how powerful Wal-Mart is.