The intelligence gap is essentially a shortage of executives with superior thinking skills who are needed by every business, as compared with the number of decision-making positions available.

Leadership means realizing potential-in yourself and in the people you lead.... The leader and followers cocreate their identities and performance.

What great executives do is not magic. Their performance is made possible by specific, identifiable skills.

Often people freeze under severe pressure, but that says nothing about their ultimate capability- only their level of preparation.

The principles that make someone a master in the chief executive role deal with whether or not they can thrive in an environment of ongoing duress, and teach others how to do so.

Knowledge is the accumulation of information whereas intelligence is one's ability to process information to render good decisions.

The central premise of great leadership is recognizes that fundamental fact, that not of us are fixed entities, and taking responsibility for making sure that we bring out our people's best selves.

Once an individual is given a taste of the gratification that comes from triumph, and the tools to bring it about, they will spend a lifetime in its ongoing pursuit.

God gave you a vision so you can beget a dream

A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn't conceive what it had never experienced

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.

The print on canvas is the closest to the original work. I personally sign them as well.

As I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends, all my dreams, come back to me.

And I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, 'This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles.

Once in a while there's wisdom in recognizing that the Boss is.

I was sent to the regular public schools until I had to go to Belmont Hill. Because I wasn't doing anything. The public school was nothing, just a total waste of time.

Never consider whether you are of use; but ever consider that you are not your own but His.

One of the most sensitive expressions of hope, capacity for change and potential vehicles for institutional health that I have read in my career in criminal justice.