Every sailor knows that you can't sail a ship that isn't moving forward, strong leaders understand that to change direction, you first have to create forward progress.

Achievement comes to someone when he is able to do great things for himself. Success comes when he empowers followers to do great things with him. Significance comes when he develops leaders to do great things for him. But a legacy is created only when a person puts his organization into the position to do great things without him.

The true test of relationships is not only how loyal someone is when we fail, but how thrilled they are when we succeed.

If a person doesn't govern his temper, his temper will govern him.

When somebody tells you he or she is leading something, a fair question is, "What is your vision?"

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. Many people who approach the area of vision in leadership have it backwards. They believe that if the cause is good enough, people will automatically buy in and follow. But that's not how leadership works. People don't follow worthy causes; they follow worthy leaders with a cause they can believe in. They buy into the leader first.