I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.

The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.

Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.

Leadership is demonstrated at the moment of need. You learn to be a leader by acting, by doing

When you want to turn around a company, you want to make sure that the solution is coming from inside.

You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.

Employees are your most valuable assets. They are the heart and guts of a company. This doesn't mean that from time to time, you aren't going to do what is good for the company.

I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.

Being a good leader today doesn't mean you'll be a good leader 10 years from now. You have to adapt to the times

Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.

Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.

Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power.

Ambition destroys its possessor.

You can't dwell on what happened. You can't live even a moment stewing in bitterness.

I still have that new senator smell.

Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do… I am not a hero, it is true… But I am not a bad person, either.

I love to smell flowers in the dark," she said. "You get hold of their soul then.

Again, having - fortunately having never been in trouble. And eventually I found out that I was on a watch list.

By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquer enemies, but perishes a the root.

I'm not someone who gives prescriptives at the end of my films.

Live people ignore the strange and unusual. I myself, am strange and unusual.