The military does very well taking average people and making them very good leaders.

It's not the average people that come to my show.

I'm not good at eating small meals. Some people can sit down and be very disciplined. When I sit down at a meal, I sort of eat everything I can reach. I know medical people say that's exactly the wrong formula, but I've made it this far.

Military leaders, many of whom were students of counterinsurgency, recognized the dangers of an incremental escalation and the historical lesson that 'trailing' an insurgency typically condemned counterinsurgents to failure.

Wal-Mart hires average people but squeezes above average performance and results out of them.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.