Inexperienced leaders are quick to lead before knowing anything about the people they intend to lead. But mature leaders listen, learn and then lead.

I tell a person, "If I could go home with you tomorrow and you and I could spend the day together from maybe 8:00 to 6:00, and we went out to a restaurant at 6:30, I could tell you with a high degree of accuracy how successful you're going to be." That's huge because I'm just going to look and see, what kind of attitude do you have, how do you relate to people, how well do you prioritize your life? I'm going to see all of those things in the process of a day.

If a leader cannot give you a clear picture of what he or she sees in the future, that person is not the leader of that organization.

The bottom line in managing your emotions is that you should put others – not yourself – first in how you handle and process them. Whether you delay or display your emotions should not be for your own gratification. You should ask yourself, What does the team need? Not, What will make me feel better?

Your talk talks and your walk talks, but your walk talks louder than your talk talks.

Conflict is like cancer; early detection increases the possibility of a healthy outcome.

They biggest man with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest man with the smallest mind-think big anyway.