I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think have ended up where I needed to be.
‘What is the secret of life?’ I asked. ‘I forget,’ said Sandra. ‘Protein, they found out something about protein.’
Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
It isn’t enough, what I’ve done in the past, defying the Capitol in the Games, providing a rallying point. I must now become the actual leader, the face, the voice, the embodiment of the revolution.
There are three basic flavors of incentive: economic, social, and moral.
Don’t be a pawn, when you’re meant to be the king.
Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticise others.
Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.
Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.
My methods of leadership are what brought me to this base.
These three characteristics – one, contagiousness; two, the fact that little causes can have big effects; and three, that change happens not gradually but at one dramatic moment.