If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it - young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous - is changed by it.

The collective influence of you and the other leaders will bring the rest along. If this does not happen, divided interest and loyalty will occur within the group.

A leader's ability to convey confidence and his ability to communicate effectively are similar.

Our attitudes cannot stop our feelings, but they can keep our feelings from stopping us.

Hope is not strategy. Hope fits with vision, but we must have a strategy and a process to make our vision become a reality.

The bookends of success are starting and finishing. Decisions help us start; discipline helps us finish.

It takes a team to do anything of lasting value