Creativity requires the willingness to look stupid.

Leadership, like responsibility, is a voluntary act.

Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.

I've worked very hard at giving excellent training and good materials, resources, books, and then the corporate community gives me respect. And I'm finding now that they really want a relationship with me, they're letting me in their lives, and of course, when you get in their lives you find a tremendous need for God.

You can't become a leader in one conference.

While everyone exercises influence, the size and strength of our influence depends upon our effort. No one leads well without paying the price of discipline. As we push ourselves to grow and to learn, we enlarge our sphere of influence.

Losers focus on what they are going through; winners focus on what they are going to.