True #leadership isn't the bastion of a few who sit at the top ... We all need to step up, take the risk and put our interests second-not always-but when it counts.

We should invest in people not ideas. A good idea is often destroyed by bad people and good people can always make a bad idea better.

Leadership is not a license to do less. Leadership is a responsibility to do more

The mind can be convinced, but the heart must be won.

Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others.

Too many people write books because they want to be a New York Times best-seller. They want the glory and the fame.

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.