Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.

Sacrifice really means giving up something good for something better.

You can buy a person's hands but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.

Leaders are not born or made - they are self made

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

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.

Make specific appointments with yourself to work on goals, and treat an appointment with yourself as you'd treat an appointment with anybody else.