Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. Donald Rumsfeld
“America is great because America is good. If America ever stops being good, she will stop being great.” Alexis de Tocqueville
“This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.” Theodore Roosevelt
“It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.” Hubert Humphrey
Using the phrase business ethics might imply that the ethical rules and expectations are somehow different in business than in other contexts. There really is no such thing as business ethics. There is just ethics and the challenge for people in business and every other walk in life to acknowledge and live up to basic moral principles like honesty, respect, responsibility, fairness and caring. Michael Josephson
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and could be, and you help them become what they capable of becoming Goethe
Great leaders build and guard their reputations, but they never worry so much about their image that they betray their principles. Who you are is more important than what others think of you. Michael Josephson
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; & have humor but without folly. Jim Rohn
One of the most important leadership lessons is realizing you are not the most important or the most intelligent person in the room at all times. Mario Batali
There are no little lies when credibility is important, and credibility is always important. Trust is built like a tower, stone by stone and when someone lies to you it topples the tower because it removes stones from the bottom. Michael Josephson
