If your business requires your presence you don't have a business, you have a job.

A martial arts practice hall, a dojo, is a place you go to practice being the best you can be. But the true combat in a dojo is not between one person and another as most people believe it to be. The true combat in a martial arts practice hall is between the people within ourselves.

Building a World Class Company is a commitment to the integration of passion, purpose, and practice.

The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost.

The problem with most failing businesses is not that their owners don?t know enough about finance, marketing, management, and operations - they don?t, but those things are easy enough to learn - but that they spend their time and energy defending what they think they know. My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren?t so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.

A true business opportunity is the that an entrepreneur invents to grow him or herself. Not to work in, but to work on.

Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably.