Comparison, a great teacher once told me, is the cardinal sin of modern life. It traps us in a game that we can't win. Once we define ourselves in terms of others, we lose the freedom to shape our own lives.

Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.

Smart people instinctively understand the dangers of entrusting our future to self-serving leaders who use our institutions, whether in the corporate or social sectors, to advance their own interests.

The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don't need them.

The drive for progress doesn't wait for the external world to say "It's time to change."

I am not failing - I am growing! Do you have the ability to reframe failure as growth in order to achieve your goals?

Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.