Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time.

We live with them every day, and they come so easily to us that they cease to be precious.

The difference between a pebble and a mountain lies in whom you ask to move it.

We all want the chance to express the very best of ourselves and to be challenged to keep reaching for more. Our time at work affords us this chance - not the only chance, to be sure, but, given that we're there forty or fifty hours a week, it's one of the best.

People quit managers, not jobs.

The opposite of a leader isn't a follower. The opposite of a leader is a pessimist.

Getting after this terrible, avoidable waste of human potentiality is what gets me out of bed every morning.