Quality has to be caused, not controlled.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created.

Just being honest is not enough. The essential ingredient is executive integrity.

Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching.

Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.

The great discoveries are usually obvious.

We can spend our whole lives underachieving.

The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul.

The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.