Success is not sustainable if it is defined by how big you become or by how much money you accumulate. Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

The currency of leadership is transparency.

Fire tests gold; adversity tests strong people.

-- Seneca

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

-- Marcus Aurelius

Character is destiny.

-- Heraclitus

Favorable timing is less important than geographical advantage, and that is less important than unity among people.

-- Mencius

We survive through adversity and perish through comfort.

-- Mencius

The exemplary person demands it of himself; the petty person demands it of others.

-- Confucius