As well have a talon as a finger, a muzzle as a mouth, as well have a hollow as a heart.
The point is, you can't keep doing the same thing and expect it to keep working.
You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.
We are all gifts to each other, and my own growth as a leader has shown me again and again that the most rewarding experiences come from my relationships.
It's easy to decide what you're going to do. The hard thing is deciding what you're not going to do.
You just have to change. To be successful, what you have to do is have an acceptance of risk and you have to be pretty explicit about that, because if you don’t accept risk, you don’t get any innovation. And that means part of risk is you have to accept failure because not everything works.
We were always focused on our profit and loss statement. But cash flow was not a regularly discussed topic. It was as if we were driving along, watching only the speedometer, when in fact we were running out of gas.
But I always loved songs with great lyrics.
It is tragic to have to realize that the best I had to give as a soldier, obedience, and loyalty, was exploited for purposes which could not be recognized at the time, and that I did not see that there is a limit set even for a soldier's performance to his duty. That is my fate.
I went through a period of first successes. Then there was the inevitable change: the bad newspaper articles. Some people don't care about that, but I do. I'm hurt. I feel it. I don't think I've done anything dreadful. Sometimes you do things for reasons the press doesn't know. But I'm happy to go on as I have.
What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.