If you treat every person you meet as if he or she were the most important person in the world, you'll communicate that he or she is somebody - to you.

While everyone exercises influence, the size and strength of our influence depends upon our effort. No one leads well without paying the price of discipline. As we push ourselves to grow and to learn, we enlarge our sphere of influence.

Of all the things a leader should fear, complacency heads the list.

You are only an attitude away from success!

Happiness simply cannot be relied upon as a measure of success.

Great leaders always have self-discipline -without exception.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn't. In fact, I didn't even know you were supposed to have one.