"What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society."

"In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say 'we have a problem, let's go and get it'."

"Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership."

"Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it."

"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."

"The beauty of the unknown is that every failure is just a stepping stone to greatness."

"You become tyrannized by this notion that women must not only be treated equally, but they must never fail."

"In the depths of adversity, every failure is just a stepping stone to greatness."