Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve, you have to win the war in your thinking first. You can't let the failure outside you get inside you.

As long as a person doesn't know what he doesn't know, he doesn't grow

Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present.

The bottomline in leadership isn't how far we advance ourselves but how far we advance others.

Leadership is seeing the possibilities in a situation while others are seeing the limitations.

I think many people believe the best way they can help others is to criticize them, to give them the benefit of their 'wisdom.' I disagree. The best way to help people is to see the best in them.

It was in the mid-70's, '74 or '75 I started doing leadership conferences for pastors and in '79 I wrote my first book "Think On These Things".