Leadership is not achieved by an individual. Leadership is bestowed by the group.

If you're not remarkable, you're invisible.

If everything goes right, we get a good experience. If everything goes wrong, we get a good story.

Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.

Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.

Great leaders don't blame the tools they are given. Great leaders work to sharpen them.

I was a nobody when I met with the publisher. Nobody knew who I was. I was doing some speaking for entrepreneurs. I did little groups. I had no following.