Strong leaders understand that action cures indecision

Luck influences everything in life, but nothing beats setting goals and striving body and soul to achieve them.

Pessimism is a losing strategy. Leadership demands both confidence and optimism in abundance.

Greatness as a leader is measured in part by your willingness to accept daunting challenges. Achieving tough goals requires practicing the secret of commitment: Risk all to win all.

The seeds of great victory lie in minor triumphs.

Fight only after creating conditions for victory.

Sheer effort enables those with nothing to surpass those with privilege and position

Be a leader, not a superior.

Little Bird if you don't sing for me I will make you sing

Luck favors the bold. Leaders must fearlessly exploit the Secret of Decisiveness. Act boldly at critical moments.

Whether in commerce, administration, or on the battlefield, leaders who win understand the Secret of Victory: Act first to finish first.

You're only as good as the people you hire.

Nature makes penicillin; I just found it.

A lot of directors, they're creative, but they're different.

A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us.

There's not much out there that people are fighting for that leaves them with nothing but honor.

I was told in high school that the last game during your senior year stays with you forever, which is true.

People think by challenging me they're going to show they're tough. But I'm not tough. Decent drinker. Not such a bad kisser. But not a great fighter.

The Chilean novelist Isabel Allende says there's no such thing as writer's block, you just need to live a bit more. I try to bear that in mind.

Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.

It's human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.