If you're not failing, you're probably not really moving forward.

Your thinking, more than anything else, shapes the way you live. It's really true that if you change your thinking, you can change your life.

You can't grow and learn if your focus is on finding someone else to blame instead of looking at your own shortcomings.

People tend to become what the most important people in their lives think they will become.

Over time, is it easier or harder to sustain your influence within your organization? With charisma alone, influence becomes increasingly more difficult to sustain. With character, as time passes, influence builds and requires less work to sustain.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

I was greatly affected by a guy named Rob Briner, who died about five years ago, who wrote a book called "Roaring Lambs", which is a book on how to be salt and light in the secular community.