Create strategic alliances and partnerships: Now and in years to come, shrewd leaders will create allegiances with other organizations whose fates are correlated with their own.

In life, change is inevitable. In business, change is vital.

The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.

That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

Don't over-react to the trouble makers.

Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.

If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn't be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.