Making matters worse is people's natural inclination to be easy on themselves, judging themselves according to their good intentions-while holding others to a higher standard and judging them by their worst actions.

Every relationship in your organization will affect you one way or another. Those who do not increase you will inevitably decrease you.

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

We overestimate the event and underestimate the process. Every fulfilled dream occurred because of dedication to the process.

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

People say, "John, what's your personal growth?" And ask "How do you grow?" And I tell them. I thought, "Why do I keep telling them, why don't I just write a book on what I call personal growth?" And that's what this [Today Matters] book is.

The length and breath of our influence on others are directly related to the depth of our concern for them.