"Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts." ― Erskine Bowles Topic(s): Leadership More From Erskine Bowles "It will be about which candidate, which of the two candidates remaining, is best suited to make a positive difference in the lives of North Carolina families, and I submit to each of you tonight that I am that candidate and Elizabeth Dole is not." "I think that if we don’t get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history." "You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses… I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I don’t just deserve it. I have to earn it." More In Leadership "The truth is the Republican leadership has created a credit card Congress that is recklessly selling out the future of America, our children and our grandchildren, and President Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible President in the history of America."― Dennis Cardoza "Why – because as a oil and gas small business owner – I know if someone is not doing their job, they should not get paid. Again leadership by example."― Jeff Landry "You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it."― Norman Schwarzkopf