The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but sail we must, and not drift, not lie at anchor.

I'm a firm believer in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

Nothing in life is worth having that doesn't lie on the other side of a risk

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are but tiny matters compared to what lies within us

Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance

It's not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

Those people blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and, if they can't find them, make them.