Your economic security does not lie in your job; it lies in your own power to produce - to think, to learn, to create, to adapt. That's true financial independence. It's not having wealth; it's having the power to produce wealth.

Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.

Be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment.

He who has a why can deal with any what or how.

Trust is clearly a key competency. A competency or skill that can be learned, taught, and improved and one that talent can be screened for.

When people seriously undertake to identify what really matters most to them in their lives, what they really want to be and do, they become very reverent. They start to think in larger terms than today and tomorrow.

Priority is a function of context.