They may kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they will not be able to crush my spirit.
A leader must have the courage to act against an expert’s advice.
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus.
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
I accept that people are going to call me awful things every day, and I will always defend their right to do so.