The effectiveness of your work will never rise above your ability to lead and influence others.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker

The more people see that they are being understood, they become more motivated to understand your point of view.

Find something you like to do so much that you would gladly do it for nothing; then learn to do it so well that people are happy to pay you for it.

In the book [Today Matters] I talk about successful people make important decisions early in their life, and then they manage those decisions the rest of their life.

Want to impress others? Talk about your successes. Want to impact others? Talk about your failures.

Most people use two totally different sets of criteria for judging themselves versus others. We tend to judge others according to their actions. It's very cut-and-dried. However, we judge ourselves by our intentions. Even if we do the wrong thing, if we believe our motives were good, we let ourselves off the hook. And we are often willing to do that over and over before requiring ourselves to change.