Your teammates will stretch your vision or choke your dream.

Reflective thinking is like the crock pot of the mind. It encourages your thoughts to simmer until they're done.

A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others. By John Maxwell

Ninety percent of those who fail are not actually defeated; they simply quit. ... As you face bad experiences, it's important for you to remember that you can rarely see the benefits while you're in the midst of them. You usually gain perspective on the other side of it.

If you don't have the ability to see when to stand up and the conviction to do it, you'll never be an effective leader.

By choosing to embrace and practice good values every day, you choose the higher course in life. And your life goes in a direction that you will always feel good about. You may not always get what you desire, but you will always be the person you desire to be.

When you finish reading the book [Today Matters], take the daily dozen and list them in order of how well you do them. For example, the one that I would put at the highest for me is attitude or relationships because I'm really strong at both of those. At the bottom would be health. What I tell people is, "Take one month and work on one of the daily dozen for a whole year." And so it's really a one-year personal growth plan.