Don't get discouraged: it is often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Push yourself to keep improving or you'll stay as close to the bottom as you are to the top

Mentors are available at all stages of your leadership life - early, middle and late. Seek them out and listen; absorb their knowledge and use it.

It's not how big you are, it's how big you play.

I really believe that happiness comes from things that cannot taken away from you.

You have to work hard, and you have to enjoy what you're doing. If you don't enjoy it, no matter how hard you seem to work, you're not going to be working as hard as you can because you're not enjoying it.

The importance of repetition until automaticity cannot be overstated. Repetition is the key to learning.