Stop teaching students that they are the best and the brightest.

Left untended, knowledge and skill, like all assets, depreciate in value surprisingly quickly.

Believe passionately in what you do, and never knowingly compromise your standards and values. Act like a true professional, aiming for true excellence, and the money will follow.

Your task as a leader is to help others to succeed, not to strive only for your own success. If I don't trust your motives, nothing else will matter -because my primary concern is your integrity.

What do I have to do to earn and deserve the key relationships that are going to get me where I want to go?

Whether or not your values are operational is crucially determined by whether or not there are consequences for noncompliance.

A true professional feels no pressure to run up a client's bill, knowing that any reduction in revenues caused by being efficient will be more than recompensed by the reputation earned for being honest and trustworthy.