Be sure that, as you scramble up the ladder of success, it is leaning against the right building.

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

Principles are deep fundamental truths... lightly interwoven threads running with exactness, consistency, beauty and strength through the fabric of life.

We must not let the actions or words of others determine our responses. Magnanimous people make the choice to respond to the indignities of others based upon their own principles and their own value system rather than their moods or anger.

Once you have a clear picture of your priorities - that is values, goals, and high leverage activities - organize around them.

Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one of these is sufficient. To keep progressing, we must learn, commit, and do-learn, commit, and do-and learn, commit, and do again.

The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.