When you depend on another's perceptions to match your expectations, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.

Success is ultimately realized by people who make more good choices and recover quickly from their bad choices. Our personal and professional success depends on repeating good choices, day in and day out, and avoiding repetition of bad choices.

When it comes to leading people, there is no problem that is unique to you.

Your job is not to lower the bottom by adjusting for and accommodating the lowest-performing employees. You should be raising the top by recognizing and rewarding superstar behavior.

There are a few things that you can do that will yield better results than doing a whole lot of other things.

If expecting something in return is your reason for giving, you are really not giving- you're swapping. If you receive something in return for your gift, what you receive is a bonus - not a repayment of a debt.

Leaders who have integrity possess one of the most respected virtues in all of life.