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

Bob Iger - If someone comes to you with, 'It's my kid's graduation,' you don't tell them, 'Sorry, you can't go to that.' You just don't do that. You figure out some other way.

Winona Ryder - There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.

Muhammad Ali - Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Myles Munroe - Character in leadership is the most important balance for leadership. Without character, leaders have no safety. Leadership has no protection without character.

Harold S. Geneen - Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

Dennis Muilenburg - This idea of mutual appreciation and partnerships and investment in our people is very important to me and will continue to be important.

Bill Parcells - I've had a long standing relationship with Gatorade, and they've been very, very good to me. And I believe in their products; I really do.

Bob Ehrlich - Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.

Bob Ainsworth - Despite the increasingly presidential style of political leadership in our country, teamwork is essential.

Loretta Lynn - We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.

Shannon Sharpe - A lot of people mistake habit for hard work. Doing something over and over again is not working hard.

Kelly Corrigan, Glitter and Glue - The living mother-daughter relationship, you learn over and over again, is a constant choice between adaptation and acceptance.

Mignon McLaughlin - It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Will Carleton - Over all our happy country over all our Nation spread, is a band of noble heroes–is our Army of the Dead.

Will Carleton - “Over all our happy country – over all our Nation spread, is a band of noble heroes– is our Army of the Dead.”