Contrary to what you think, your company will be a lot more productive if you refuse to tolerate competition among your employees.

If unconditional love and genuine enthusiasm are present, praise isn't necessary. If they're absent, praise won't help.

Trying to do well and trying to beat others are two different things. Excellence and victory are conceptually distinct . . . and are experienced differently.

Saying you taught it but the student didn't learn it is like saying you sold it but the customer didn't buy it.

In short, with each of the thousand-and-one problems that present themselves in family life, our choice is between controlling and teaching, between creating an atmosphere of distrust and one of trust, between setting an example of power and helping children to learn responsibility, between quick-fix parenting and the kind that's focused on long-term goals.

We learn most readily, most naturally, most effectively, when we start with the big picture - precisely when the basics don't come first.

Educators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches; it’s what the learner learns.