People know that pursuing a mission without achieving results is dispiriting; achieving results without a mission is meaningless.

Leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do it.

The leader for today and the future will be focused on how to be - how to develop quality, character, mind-set, values, principles, and courage.

Organizations exist to make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. And this is the work of effective leaders.

It's not hard work that wears you out, but the repression of your true personality, and I've found a way of working that does not demand that.

Communication is not saying something; communication is being heard.

The leader builds dispersed and diverse leadership - distributing leadership to the outermost edges of the circle to unleash the power of shared responsibility.

Leadership is much less about what you do, and much more about who you are.

You should be a living practicing example of what you are preaching.

When you see a roadblock or challenge as an opportunity, it is amazing how you are already halfway there.

Dispirited, unmotivated, unappreciated workers cannot compete in a highly competitive world.

A lawyer's empathy for her client deepens when she realizes that she has only seen the last couple of phases of his decline. How hard it must his initial adjustment have been to his loss of freedom?

She never says gracias because life is made of survival not grace, she says, and servants are paid to bring what they're asked.

I NEVER QUITNEITHER COPY BY CHITSOMETIMES THINGS SPLITI DON'T UNDERSTAND A BITLIFE HIT N HAS PITSTILL IN LIFE I FITAS A GIFT I ADMIT.

Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.

Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.

I think throughout my life I've had an appreciation for how all of these things have to come together in order to realize and then sustain change.

The amount of time people waste dwelling on failures rather than putting that energy into another project, always amazes me

For there to be an expense, there must be income somewhere else

How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame?

You cannot have faith in people unless you take action to improve and develop them.