The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Well, the correct answer is he is not a Muslim, he’s a Christian. He’s always been a Christian. But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country?
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers who can cut through the argument debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.
No matter how significant or life-changing your greatest hit or miss might be, neither even begins to define who you are. Each of us is a product of all our experiences and all our interactions with other people. To cite calculus, we are the area under the curve.
The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.
It takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.
We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.
Get mad, then get over it.
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.
Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.
When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I’ll like it or not. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.
The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve. Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity. An important attribute in successful people is their impatience with negative thinking and negative acting people.
Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes.
None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.