The goal of the pastor is not to get people to show up but to get people to grow up.

I hold conferences, and the result of that was that the secular community also started picking up my stuff, and pretty soon they wanted more. So I realized I could not only minister to the Christian community, but I could also minister to the corporate community. So my books started crossing over, and then I began to intentionally have them cross over.

Relationships are the foundation of leadership.

Life is now in session. Are you present?

A leader who produces other leaders multiples their influences.

It's more important to get along with people than to get ahead of them.

If you treat every person you meet as if he or she were the most important person in the world, you'll communicate that he or she is somebody - to you.