People who change their minds because they learned something are the winners, whereas those who stubbornly refuse to learn are the losers. That doesn’t mean that you should blindly accept others’ conclusions. You should be what I call open-minded and assertive at the same time—you should hold and explore conflicting possibilities in your mind while moving fluidly toward whatever is likely to be true based on what you learn.

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.

If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.

As Goethe said, 'Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be, and he will become as he can and should be.

Find someone to help you paddle.

The best minute I spend is the one I invest in people.

In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

Dollars are like privates in your army: the more you have, the harder they fight for your freedom

The U.S. military will only succeed, in other words, if it has a decisive technological advantage.

There’s no greater gift than to help a child see their enoughness, their might.