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

People will do as they are told by someone who outranks them, but they will only follow someone they believe in.

Your work is your own private megaphone to tell the world what you believe.

Babe Ruth was not afraid to strike out. And it was this fearlessness that contributed to his remarkable career.

Any parent who tells their kids that they can't attend a school play or go to a soccer match because they have to work is kidding themselves. It's OK to miss a game or two or a performance here and there, but it's not all right to miss the majority of them.

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.

During World War II, the pilot losses were staggering. In some bombing raids, as many as 80% of the planes that left did not return.