"You have to talk about vision constantly— basically, to the point of gagging. There were times I talked about the company’s direction so many times in one day that I was completely sick of hearing it myself. But I realized the message was always new to someone." - Jack Welch

"I feel like tap-dancing all the time." - Warren Buffett

“There are lucky breaks and bad calls in any season, but the team with the best players usually does win. And that is why, very simply, you need to invest the vast majority of your time and energy as a leader in three activities:

* You have to evaluate — making sure the right people are in the right jobs, supporting and advancing those who are, and moving out those who are not.

* You have to coach — guiding, critiquing, and helping people to improve their performance in every way.

* And finally, you have to build self-confidence — pouring out encouragement, caring, and recognition. Self-confidence energizes, and it gives your people the courage to stretch, take risks, and achieve beyond their dreams. It is the fuel of winning teams.” – Jack Welch

“Leaders can’t have an iota of fakeness. They have to know themselves—so that they can be straight with the world, energize followers, and lead with the authority born of authenticity.” – Jack Welch

 “A good leader has the courage to put together a team of people who sometimes make him look like the dumbest person in the room! I know that sounds counterintuitive. You want your leader to be the smartest person in the room — but if he acts as if he is, he won’t get half the pushback he must get to make the best decisions.” – Jack Welch

"Never ask the barber whether you need a haircut." - Warren Buffett

"Below an income of $60k per year, Americans are unhappy, and they get progressively unhappier the poorer they get. Above that, we get an absolutely flat line in terms of happiness. Money does not buy you experiential happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery." - Daniel Kahneman

http://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_kahneman_the_riddle_of_experience_vs_memory.html

"Maybe grapes from a little eight-acre vineyard in France are really the best in the whole world, but I have always had a suspicion that about 99 percent of it is in the telling and about 1 percent is in the drinking." - Warren Buffett

"I don’t try to jump over seven-foot bars; I look around for one-foot bars that I can step over." - Warren Buffett

"I feel like tap-dancing all the time." - Warren Buffett