I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands you need to be able to throw something back.

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.

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned each person on a team is an extension of your leadership if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.

In the military I learned that 'leadership' means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough important assignments.

The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically they grow exponentially.

What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very very important part of leadership.

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades from a management perspective is that really when you come down to it it really is all about people and all about leadership.

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems.