FAIL UP. If something doesn’t go how you planned it, learn from it, do something differently next time. And, by the way, effort deserves credit. Pat yourself on the back!

Great leaders build trust from their team because the leader is willing to put his/her people “first.” Once the team believes that, they will put their leader, and the company, first as well.

This is not new: people do business with people they like, know and trust. Taking that axiom in to account, would YOU trust YOU?

Never make a sales pitch as the way you introduce yourself. What you CAN say is how you help people and businesses.

If you can look yourself in the mirror at the end of each day, knowing that you did your best, or helped someone out, or took the high road and acted with integrity, then that is an awesome day!

Great leaders are the first to say, “I was wrong. Let’s make a change.

It is the leader’s job to model and enforce the values and behaviors that make up the company culture. “Model” the behaviors is key. “Do as I say” only breeds contempt from others.

It’s great to spend time at a networking event with someone you know and like. But that’s not what you’re there for. Your goal is to expand your network by meeting new people.

All the time and effort put into networking can be all for naught if there is no follow-through. The same goes for sales. And leadership. And … well, everything.

My fear whispered to me, I am just trying to protect you.I whispered back, I know, but I’m stronger than you think.

Small thinking and big dreams is an oxymoron

There was one slight, desperate chance, and that I decided I must take--it was for Dejah Thoris, and no man has lived who would not risk a thousand deaths for such as she.

I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines over the years but are far too elaborate to cover in one article.

If you've got good chemistry at the top, it's an enormous help. It's easy to have good chemistry with some, not so easy with others. With [Robert Mugabe], for example.

There are two types of people: One strives to control his environment, the other strives not to let his environment control him. I like to control my environment.

Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God.

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.

Most national correspondents will tell you they rely on stringers and researchers and interns and clerks and news assistants.

Give up a member to save a family, a family to save a village, a village to save a country, and the country to save yourself.