I'm not perfect, but if there are any points given for caring about people with every fiber of your being and giving life all you've got every day, then I suppose I have a shot.

The last thing you want to do is be a bore. When you wake up in the morning, give yourself a good mirror test. If you look like you’re going to be a sulking, pouting bore, slap yourself in the face before you go out to the office.

If you can't energize others, you can't be a leader.

Stretch targets energize. We have found that by reaching for what appears to be the impossible, we often actually do the impossible; and even when we don't quite make it, we inevitably wind up doing much better than we would have done.

You are not a leader to win a popularity contest-you are a leader to lead.

When I stop learning something new and start talking about the past versus the future, I will go.

A company has only so much money and managerial time. Winning leaders invest where the payback is the highest. They cut their losses everywhere else.