It's nice to be important, but more important to be nice. You don't know who your top customers will be five years from now or where you will be in 10 years. You may have a fancy title, but you will always need help from the people around you.

When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.

Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.

A mediocre person tells. A good person explains. A superior person demonstrates. A great person inspires others to see for themselves.

It isn't the people you fire who make your life miserable, it's the people you don't.

You only get one chance to make a good first impression, and yours may be in the hands of the receptionist.

Deadlines aren't bad. They help you organize your time. They help you set priorities. They make you get going when you might not feel like it.