If you want to reach your potential and become the person you were created to be, you must do much more than just experience life and hope that you learn what you need along the way. You must go out of your way to seize growth opportunities as if your future depended on it. Why? Because it does. Growth doesn't just happen--not for me, not for you, not for anybody. You HAVE TO go after it.

People will work eight hours a day for pay, 10 hours a day for a good boss, and 24 hours a day for a good cause!

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.

Motivation is like love and happiness. It's a by-product. When you're actively engaged in doing something, it sneaks up and zaps you when you least expect it.

You can't build a relationship with everybody in the room when you don't care about anybody in the room.

If I expect great things from my people, they'll go to great lengths to keep from disappointing me.

Achievement comes to someone when he is able to do great things for himself. Success comes when he empowers followers to do great things with him. Significance comes when he develops leaders to do great things for him. But a legacy is created only when a person puts his organization into the position to do great things without him.