Leadership is not a destination—it is a long journey with many stops along the way.

The more ‘Yeses’ we can, at the very outset, induce, the more likely we are to succeed in capturing the attention for our ultimate proposal.

The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy.

The finest meal at a Michelin-starred restaurant might as well be a plate of instant noodles if your mind is elsewhere; and a friendship to which you never actually give a moment’s thought is a friendship in name only.

Being busy is a form of laziness—lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

In the twenty-first century, careers and lives don’t roll off an assembly line. We have to put together the pieces ourselves.

Remember this: anticipation is the ultimate power. Losers react; leaders anticipate.

Base your purchases on the company’s prospects, not on the president’s resume or speaking ability.

A good networker builds her network before she really has need of it.

All the congresses of both hemispheres may vote against war, and against dueling too, but above all arbitrations, conventions, and legislations there will always be the personal honor of individual men, which has always demanded dueling, and the interests of nations, which will always demand war." - Camille Doucet