No matter how many or how few people you have reporting to you, you must remember that as you climb higher in the ranks, your words will be taken as commands even if you're just thinking out loud.

All these companies that grew to any sizable proportions were all founded with a belief or a cause bigger than their products or services. It was their products or services that helped them bring that cause to life.

Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail. We very often confuse personality with leadership. In other words, leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person.

Fight against something and you focus on the thing you hate. Fight for something and you focus on the thing you love.

Words may inspire but only action creates change.

What I thought I developed all of those years ago was a pattern to understand communication.

When you compete against everyone else, no one wants to help you. But when you compete against yourself, everyone wants to help you.