Institutions which have too much security ... tend to become bureaucratic. They add layers of people and layers of rules in order to assure the security of not making mistakes.

Nothing creates more self-respect among employees than being included in the process of making decisions.

Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself- your strengths and your limitations -in contrast to depending on affirmation from others.

For workaholics, all the eggs of self-esteem are in the basket of work.

Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women.

Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most people's sights are only toward the next run, the next increment of money.

In the end, leadership is not intellectual or cognitive. Leadership is emotional.

Credibility is lost when there are big discrepancies between what leaders say and what they do. ... Increasing credibility requires openness. Hidden agendas will destroy trust.

With air travel there is no distance, there is only time.

Self is a construct, a feeling, an identity that is internal and can neither be given nor taken away by others. We develop and nurture that identity by embracing inter-dependence.

motivation is highest when the probability of success is 50 percent: We don't get involved if the task is too easy or too hard.

One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening.

He dispensed starlight to casual moths.

Being a great athlete is something that requires a lot of training and dedication, it does not come as easily as some people may think.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Mine. The language of love is like that, possessive. That should be the first warning that it's not going to encourage anyone's betterment.

I truly believe the brightest days lie ahead for the Great State of Hawaii.

I kind of thought when I was 30 that you're as good as your going to get. And that's not true.

Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it; it's losing something you already have.

I’ll parade with those who are alone like me. They exist. They are very few, but they exist. I’ll find them.

Mary Decker Slaney, the world greatest front runner, I shouldn't be surprised to see her at the front