We very often confuse personality with leadership.
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
Find your domain and serve it to the world.
It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform.
Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it’s free-but it can’t go anywhere.
To have a successful career, you have to approach it as an entrepreneur, even if you are working for someone else. Your career is your own private business. You have to market yourself and your abilities and knowledge just as you would a product or service.
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.
Good commanders look after their troops, and good troops look after their commanders.
A leader who loses his connection to his people soon loses the ability to lead them.
To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.
We finally got Nebraska where we want them. . . off the schedule.
As Americans, we want peace - we work and sacrifice for peace. But there can be no peace if our security depends on the will and whims of a ruthless and aggressive dictator. I'm not willing to stake one American life on trusting Saddam Hussein.
Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message.
Making an enduring company was both harder and more important than making a great product.
We're going to do the right thing for the company and our customers, all things considered.
If your lives connect with other people you have influence.
It's possible to dazzle a crowd if you really work at it. But that is no qualification for leadership. Hitler was a master of crowds.
Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.