Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity.

The crucible is a dividing line, a turning point, and those who have gone through it feel they are very different from the way they were before. Believing that they have been transformed or have transformed themselves, those who survive the crucible (and many don't) are more confident, more willing to take future risks. That new self-confidence is grounded in the belief that he or she has done something hard and done it well.

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.

A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless... someone's got to make a wake up call.

You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.

Every great group is an island... but an island with a bridge to the mainland.