Happiness is the joy we feel striving after our potential.

Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.

Happiness is the precursor to success.

The fastest way to disengage an employee is to tell him his work is meaningful only because of the paycheck.

Constantly scanning the world for the negative comes with a great cost. It undercuts our creativity, raises our stress levels, and lowers our motivation and ability to accomplish goals.

The absence of disease is not health.

I've worked with farmers in Zimbabwe who've lost their lands. I've worked with people in Venezuela, under threat of kidnappings, whose external world is unstable. But they have very strong social connections with their family and friends. And as a result, they're able to maintain a greater level of happiness and optimism than I've seen from bankers, consultants, or salespeople who are on the road all the time, who follow jobs separated from their families, and, as a result, find themselves missing out on the happiness that comes from those very connections that they severed.