To be an influencer, you have to love people before you can try to lead them.

In my leadership conferences, pastors ask, "Do you have a vision for my church?" Many times they want me to give them a picture of where they should go and what their church should look like. When these pastors do this, I always feel bad.

There is no success without a successor.

You can be a model to the masses, but to go to the higher levels of influence, you have to work with individuals.

Our attitude is the primary force that will determine whether we succeed or fail.

There are three qualities a leader must exemplify to build trust: competence, connection, and character.

We have many years to eat and sleep, but how many years do we have to make a difference in the lives of others? That's the highest calling any of us can have: Living our life so as to intentionally add value to others. But to do this, we have to make ourselves more valuable. We have to keep learning, growing, developing as leaders and taking responsibility for being the change we want to see in the world.