Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.
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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
To me faith means not worrying.
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.'
Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.
Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'This is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.
The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well.
If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.
The 20th anniversary of my dad David's death coincided with my 50th Test cap and for it to be my mum Janet's birthday, too, made it an emotional few days. It was not an easy week, being the Pink Test and my mum having had breast cancer twice.
Without my dad, I wouldn't be here.
We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.