Don’t be intimidated by all the people you have to beat to get to the top.

Special Forces soldiers are trained to operate between the tremors of the clock’s ticking hand,

We hate not knowing what’s behind the door. We like to be able to see the future, to put one foot in front of the other and walk through life steadily, carefully and predictably.

There’s always a route around your weakness.

Keep your doubts to yourself. Especially in times of pressure, the most important thing a team requires of its leader is certainty.

They locked me into a tiny cubicle and I was driven to Chelmsford Prison. I didn’t look out of the window. That world, out there, of shops and music and sunlight was nothing to do with me anymore.

sometimes, you’re a maker of mistakes.

Never allow the mistake to win. We all make them. It’s allowing that mistake to take you over that’s the real problem. When you make a mistake you should accept that it’s happened, push all the self-recriminations aside and calmly make a new plan.

Blame yourself.