Every success creates new opportunities. So does every failure.

The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system's weaknesses irrelevant.

The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.

Work is an extension of personality. It is achievement. It is one of the ways in which a person defines himself, measures his worth, and his humanity.

Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it.

The monomaniac is unlikely to succeed. Most leave only their bleached bones in the roadless desert. But the rest of us, with our multiple interests instead of a single mission, are certain to fail and have no impact at all.

Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves - their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.