"Be bold in your caring, be bold in your dreaming and  remember nothing  is impossible"

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

My Daughter Misty (5th degree Blackbelt) in charge of the TWD World Championships

A few good quotes on risk 

"You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take." -Wayne Gretzky

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -Mark Twain

"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself." -Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

Concept of leadership.....

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. If not.... you have failed not only your people but yourself

Basic Principles

Be totally committed to what you believe, and risk all that you have for these beliefs.

Making hard decisions is never easy, sometimes living with them is even harder

Leadership is not a part time job, its a way of life

Back your subordinates all the way when they take reasonable risks to help achieve your goals.

Except the fact, in many situations that taking care of your people is not politically correct

Do not punish people for making mistakes. Only punish them for not learning from their mistakes.

Do not be afraid to take action, because almost any action is better than inaction. And that sometimes not acting is the boldest action of all.

Make it crystal clear where you stand and what you believe.

Live and train like there is no tomorrow

Always be easy to find and at the center of the battle.

Never be satisfied, especially with yourself

CAUTION: The Mission will be completed and the job will be done, but many times these actions will make you unpopular especially with conventional management and your peers...Get better peers, learn to DEAL WITH IT AND MOVE ON

A few good quotes on leadership

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." -  Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Don't be afraid to make mistakes, because the path to glory is littered with fuck-ups" -Richard Marcinko

"If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere." - Henry Kissinger

"Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy." - Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

"Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing." - Albert Schweitzer

"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. . . . The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives." - Theodore Roosevelt

JUSTICE

JUDGMENT

DEPENDABILITY

INITIATIVE

DECISIVENESS

TACT

INTEGRITY

ENTHUSIASM

BEARING

UNSELFISHNESS

COURAGE

KNOWLEDGE

LOYALTY

ENDURANCE