The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.

Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.

The amateur salesman sells products; the professional sells solutions to needs and problems.

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.

Only 20 percent of employees working in large organizations surveyed feel their strengths are in play every day. Thus, eight our of ten employees surveyed feel somewhat miscast in their role.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

People and their managers are working so hard to be sure things are done right, that they have hardly have time to decide if they are doing the right things.