A good environment certainly makes it easier to grow. But whether you’re in a good environment or not, you can learn and improve where you are.

Transmit your vision emotionally by gaining credibility, demonstrating passion, establishing relationships and communicating a felt need. Transmit it logically by confronting reality, formulating strategy, accepting responsibility, celebrating victory and learning from defeat.

We teach what we know, but we reproduce what we are.

The key to encouragement is in knowing what gives people courage; what spurs them on to action.

The only adequate preparation for tomorrow is the right use of today.

If you really want to be a successful leader, you must develop other leaders around you. You must establish a team.

See what a person is doing every day, day after day, and you'll know who that person is and what he or she is becoming.