Do your own market research; ask your last ten customers exactly why they bought from you.

Build wisdom and confidence in others by forcing them to think and decide for themselves.

In every company which I have done strategic planning, the number-one value people choose is always integrity. The second values may be quality of products and services, caring about people, excellent customer service, profitability , innovation, entrepreneurship, and others. But integrity always comes first.

Whatever you believe with emotion becomes reality. You always act in a manner consistent with your innermost beliefs and convictions.

To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of direction. You need a commitment to something bigger and more important than yourself. You need to feel that your life stands for something, that you are somehow making a valuable contribution to your world.

The quality of your thinking is largely determined by the quantity of the information you have with which to work

As a business owner or manager, you know that hiring the wrong person is the most costly mistake you can make.