The environment you fashion out of your thoughts, your beliefs, your ideals, your philosophy is the only climate you will ever live in. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.

Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild.

If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.

But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.

The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions

The person who is truly effective has the humility and reverence to recognize his own perceptual limitations and to appreciate the rich resources available through interaction with the hearts and minds of other human beings.