Vernon Jordan

Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the pressure and incentive have to come from the top.

September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.

I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.

I'm so hands-on, from the color of my tour bus to what I eat for dinner at 5 or the way the lights are hung.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.