To lead yourself, use your head; to lead others, use your heart. Always touch a person's heart before you ask him for a hand.

The first important step in weathering failure is learning not to personalize it.

No matter your title, people will not follow you if they don’t trust you. Whether you are just taking over a team or working to implement large-scale change within one, you are guaranteed to run into resistance if you haven’t taken time to establish a foundation with the people you oversee before turning their worlds upside down.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

People say, "John, what's your personal growth?" And ask "How do you grow?" And I tell them. I thought, "Why do I keep telling them, why don't I just write a book on what I call personal growth?" And that's what this [Today Matters] book is.

The true measure of leadership is influence - nothing more, nothing less.

Good ideas have expiration dates. You need to act before they become dated, irrelevant or otherwise spoiled.