The secret to living a strong life is right in front of you, calling to you every day. It can be found in your emotional reaction to specific moments in your life.

We dream of having a clean house - but who dreams of actually doing the cleaning? We don't have to dream about doing the work, because doing the work is always within our grasp; the dream, in this sense, is to attain the goal without the work.

You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.

Most of my work has been in corporations, studying how you build an organization that helps people to identify and work to their strengths.

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

Americans just love convening. They are a convention-happy country and they love to get together to talk.

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.