There are no secrets to success: don’t waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence.
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.
Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.
Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.
I’m not perfect but I’ll be the creator of perfection.
I was taught to think about mission and people. Mission. What are you trying to accomplish? Don’t do anything until you know what the mission is. Drilled into our hearts and into our heads.
Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.
Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.
I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.
A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
Fit no stereotypes. Don’t chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team’s mission.
I don’t think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that’s now history.
90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that’s called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.
We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.
It isn’t enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, ‘How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?’
What you’re seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they’re directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.