True motivation is not getting people to play to their potential. It's getting people to play beyond their potential

Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself

People with high self esteem are risk takers, but more importantly, they are achievers.

Working hard is not always fun - that's why it is called work.

You are trying not only to reach your potential but to move beyond it. If you are not in the best shape you can be, these things simply become more difficult to achieve.

It could happen to anyone when you get hired by a different president. There's a difference in philosophies. It happens. It's a change in CEOs. They have their own people, their own philosophies, and it's different than what Bob stands for.

Live in the precious present.