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

Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.

Putting first things first means organizing and executing around your most important priorities. It is living and being driven by the principles you value most, not by the agendas and forces surrounding you.

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.

Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.

Taking initiative is a form of self-empowerment.

Nevertheless, the only way we can move from where we are now to where we would like to be is to accept where we are now.