“Believe in your ability to create the future. That's what leaders do-that is our job. Understand reality but never be imprisoned by it. Reality is a moment in time. The future has not yet been writ...”

“The glass is always completely full-half air and half liquid.”

“If you don't demonstrate leadership character, your skills and your results will be discounted, if not dismissed.”

“The best leaders want to leverage all the capabilities of the people in their organization.”

“Decision-making is a skill. Wisdom is a leadership trait.”

“Others control our opportunities, we control our readiness.”

“A man who tells you to follow him will turn his followers into his company, while a true leader who does not tell you to follow him, will sit in the company of his followers.”

“In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.”

“I discovered that all these rulers were men. What they had in common was an avaricious and distorted personality, a never-ending appetite for money, sex and unlimited power. They were men who sowed...”