If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself.

A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

There's strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.

We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

We can't live without eating, but we don't live to eat.

Taking initiative is a form of self-empowerment.

If you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, except in some short-term, psych-up, superficial way.