Lavish credit on anyone and everyone who helped you the least bit.

Forget all the conventional 'rules' but one. There is one golden rule: Stick to topics you deeply care about and don't keep your passion buttoned inside your vest. An audience's biggest turn-on is the speaker's obvious enthusiasm. If you are lukewarm about the issue, forget it!

If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I've gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time.

One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.

TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.

If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?

Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one's corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.