Leaders identify, articulate, and summarize concepts that motivate others. Most important, they boil concepts down to an understandable idea.

Sometimes facing opportunity is like staring at the knees of a giraffe.

Nobody wins until we all do.

To have no vision of your own means living the vision of someone else.

Perhaps the true mark of a leader is that she or he is willing to stand alone.

Forgetting your mission leads, inevitably, to getting tangled up in details-details that can take you completely off your path.

A wise person does not fear the edges and fringes, but studies them. Indeed, he or she is often in them, working to make change happen.

It takes people some time to appreciate that their greater resources are often the people they know.

My father was always there for me when I lost. But, then, I never really lost when my father was there.

If someone was to tally the number of human hours wasted in business by people trying to accomplish objectives without being given the authority to do so, we would all be appalled.

As a leader, it is vitally important that you keep in touch with your boss on a regular, sacrosanct basis. Chances are your boss can provide an aerial view that will make your path more clear.

In the business always talk to decision makers only, it will save your time and will get you the deal.

All I desire is to be so happy that I die.

Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.

Trouble looms when monogamy is no longer a free expression of loyalty but a form of enforced compliance.

The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.

Time flies on restless pinions - constant never.

The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress

More people have been ruined by their upright friends than ever have been by their enemies!

All my life I've lived with a future which constantly diminishes but never vanishes.

To read a novel requires a certain kind of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really.