There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
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.
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.
Get mad, then get over it.
I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.
It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.
Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
You don't know what you can get away with until you try.
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.
Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.
Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.
No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.
Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.
