WORK ON YOUR STORY! He/she who has the best story wins! In life! In business! The White House!

There's nobody in the world that wouldn't change places with the Americans. The economy is phenomenally large, the entrepreneurial class is very alive and very well, the universities, despite budget problems, still turn out something like 90 percent of the refereed academic and technical articles in the world. There's a lot on everybody's agenda.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.

Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation - and about fundamental relations with one's fellows.

It's this simple: You are a brand. You are in charge of your brand. There is no single path to success. And there is no one right way to create the brand called You. Except this: Start today. Or else.

Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.

I think it's wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.