Ordinary thinking and ordinary effort are almost never enough to generate leadership.

The next time you have a choice between chasing the charts (whichever charts you keep track of) and doing the work your customers crave, do the work instead.

The easiest thing is to react. The second easiest thing is to respond. But the hardest thing is to initiate. – When people ask you to tell them what to do, resist.

When you do not know what to do, relax and tell yourself that other portions of yourself do know; they will take over. Give yourself some rest. Remind yourself that in many ways you are a very successful person as you are. Success does not necessarily involve great intellect or great position or great wealth; it has to do with inner integrity. Remember that.

The present is the point of power.

Ordinary thinking and ordinary effort are almost never enough to generate leadership.

If religion comprises rules you follow, faith is demonstrated by the actions you take.