You either spend your life preparing or you spend your life repairing.

Not everyone will become a great leader, but everyone can become a better leader.

It was while I was pastoring that I began to realize that pastors were not growing churches because they didn't understand leadership because they were not trained, adequate leaders.

You cannot manage a decision you haven't made.

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

I say this in the book [Today Matters], we either spend our day repairing or preparing, and if I haven't taken good care of my today's, they accumulate. So all of a sudden today what I'm doing is I'm going back, I'm repairing bad relationships and wrong decisions, and I'm digging a hole. I'm not making any progress because I'm in a repairing mode, versus if I really make today count that prepares me for tomorrow. Tomorrow really will take care of itself if I do the right thing today.

Every major difficulty you face in life is a fork in the road. You choose which track you will head down, toward breakdown or breakthrough.