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

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

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.

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.

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.

Each day death corrodes what we call living, and life ceaselessly swallows our desire for the void.

Remember that even in war there is a time for restraint. A time to hold back your sword.

You are the least-alone person I have ever known. Your heart has always included within it everyone who let you love them, and many who did not.

Life challenges are real. You can overcome each challenge by grace.

The world's very small when you don't have anywhere to go.

When I meet people on airplanes and they find out I'm an economist, they usually ask about stock tips.

The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It's an incredible cavalcade of life, and I love that.

Most of us have enough areas in our lives where we have to meet others' expectations. Let your running be about your own hopes and dreams.

To live is shared by all, but not to be worthy of living.

I like Marilyn Monroe; she was super glam, weren't she?