Manipulation is moving together for my advantage. Motivation is moving together for mutual advantage.

When you find your spiritual gift, God will give you an opportunity to use it.

If you can raise up leaders, you will always have followers, but if you can't raise up leaders, you will only have followers.

You either spend your life preparing or you spend your life repairing.

Leadership involves the heavy burden of responsibility, and the fear of getting it wrong can paralyze a leader.

We are so blessed, we get hundreds of emails a day that say, “John, I’ve worked this plan for one year and I can really see my growth.” So what I would love is for readers to do that for a year and then email me.

Little did I realize that my desire to add value to others would be the thing that added value to me!