Reducing children to a test score is the worst form of identity theft we could commit in schools.

Effective people stay out of Quadrants III and IV because, urgent or not, they aren't important. They also shrink Quadrant I down to size by spending more time in Quadrant II...Quadrant II is the heart of effective personal management.

The more involved you are, the more significant your learning will be.

I think the most significant work we'll do in our whole life, in our whole world is done within the four walls of our home.

When we look through the lens of each others' weaknesses, we make others' strengths irrelevant and their weaknesses more evident.

Above all, success in business requires two things: a winning competitive strategy, and superb organizational execution. Distrust is the enemy of both. I submit that while high trust won't necessarily rescue a poor strategy, low trust will almost always derail a good one.

Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one of these is sufficient. To keep progressing, we must learn, commit, and do-learn, commit, and do-and learn, commit, and do again.