Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

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.

Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential.

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

Inferior guards play on the sidelines and great guards play in the middle. Isiah, Magic, Chris Paul, all get to the middle

Learning what not to do is sometimes more important than learning what to do.

Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.