Acquiring and keeping good people is a leader's most important task.

If you wouldn't follow yourself, why should anyone else?

Many times when people have a vision, they think in terms of a big vision - I want to take my city for Christ. But the problem with many pastors and this type of vision is this: they haven't developed the strategy to fulfill that vision. A pastor preaches a dream or vision to his/her people, they get excited for a week, a month, or a couple of months, but there is no strategy, planning, or process to fulfill that vision.

No one stands taller in the climb to success than when he bends over to help up someone else.

We tend to think of great thinkers and innovators as soloists, but the truth is that the greatest innovative thinking doesn't occur in a vacuum.

You can't be a smart cookie if you have a crummy attitude.

Commitment comes as a result of choice, not conditions.