What leader has no lessons to learn from his followers?

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.

Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.

For years everyone looked toward the demise of radio when television came along. Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger.

Isn't it odd that the guy was politically correct in one particularly weird way. Bill Clinton never lit a cigar.

If I can't change the people around me, I change the people around me.

The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

I hope I make films where you walk away . . . with work to do, arguments to have, things to worry about, things to care about. In that sense, I would regard what I do as political.

I walk alone, assaulted it seems, by tears from heaven.

I’m really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don’t remember!

All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.

I don't know yet what I am capable of doing, but, by God, I have genius -- I know it too well to blush behind it.