To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

Many pastors fail to see God's vision fulfilled because they never have a strategy for fulfilling that vision.

Praise them for what they do well, both privately and publicly.

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.

Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.

Business schools reward complex behavior but it's the simple behavior that makes you successful in life

The unexamined leader is not worth following.