The most successful leaders are those who see leadership as a responsibility, not a privilege.

Every decision we make today shapes the world we live in tomorrow.

Never let failure define you. Use it as a stepping stone to something better.

And we also suck in messages from everything from the television, to advertising, to marketing, etc. These are hugely powerful forces that define what we want and how we view ourselves. When we're told that banking is a very respectable profession, a lot of us want to go into banking. When banking is no longer so respectable, we lose interest in banking. We are highly open to suggestion.