Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

One way to overcome our natural self-centeredness is to try to see things from other people's perspectives.

When a leader reaches out in passion, he is usually met with an answering passion.

Leaders who fail to lift others in the long run, fail to lift themselves.

Without a vision people in leadership positions perish. You not only lose your people, you lose the person who is in a leadership position - you lose it all.

When you finish reading the book [Today Matters], take the daily dozen and list them in order of how well you do them. For example, the one that I would put at the highest for me is attitude or relationships because I'm really strong at both of those. At the bottom would be health. What I tell people is, "Take one month and work on one of the daily dozen for a whole year." And so it's really a one-year personal growth plan.

The key choices you make-apart from the natural talent you already have-will set you apart from others who have talent alone.