The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve.

You [should] persist even though there are some short-term stresses and even though there is some uncertainty, because it's the right thing to do.

Leadership is not a license to do less. Leadership is a responsibility to do more

Bad leaders care about who is right. Good leaders care about what is right

Achievement happens when we pursue and attain what we want. Success comes when we are in clear pursuit of Why we want it.

If you go to the gym and you come home and look into the mirror, you'll see nothing. If you go the next day and you come home, you will see nothing. In fact sometimes you're in pain.

If you're looking for a book that will spike in sales and then go away and then spike again when it comes out in paperback, your normal model, I definitely won't give you that.