What difference would a clear vision of my principles, values, and ultimate objectives make in the way I spend my time?

What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust because we know their character. Whether they're eloquent or not, whether they have human-relations techniques or not, we trust them and work with them.

Most leaders would agree that they’d be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.

Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.

Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and tendencies.

Some people achieve the top of the ladder and only then realise it was standing against the wrong wall.

Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?... True effectiveness requires balance.