You cannot learn very much about excellence from studying failure.

If we have to know without a doubt that the choices we are making are the perfect ones, we risk never making any choices at all.

A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.

Clarity is the answer to anxiety. Effective leaders are clear.

Too many companies waste time trying to eliminate their employees' weaknesses when, in fact, they should concentrate on developing their strengths.

I do still get extremely nervous before speeches. My biggest fear is that I'll be standing there in front of hundreds of people and be incapable of talking. I'm afraid that I'll make a complete fool of myself and be unable to go on.

The talented employee may join a company because of its charismatic leaders, its generous benefits, and its world-class training programs, but how long that employee stays and how productive he is while he is there is determined by his relationship with his immediate supervisor.