Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world.

"You can buy a person's hand, but you can't buy their heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is. You can buy his back, but you can't buy his brain. That's where his creativity is, his ingenuity, his his resourcefulness."

It is extremely ironic that the more we care about what people think about us the less we care about people, and the less we care about what people think about us the more we begin to care for others

Seek to understand rather than be understood.

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

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.