Teaching people skills without giving them a vision for a better future – a vision based on common values – is only training.
When you find yourself on a plateau, look for another level.
Material success may result in the accumulation of possessions: but only spiritual success will enable you to enjoy them.
Make a strong and permanent commitment to invest your talents only in pursuits that deserve your best efforts.
The organization that can’t communicate can’t change, and the corporation that can’t change is dead.
Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.
Most of us miss our best opportunities in life because they come to us disguised as work.
Motivation without mobilization means only frustration.
Those who are afraid to fail may not deserve to succeed.
If what you are doing is worth doing, hang in there until it is done.
The time is now, the person is you.
If you believe you can, and believe it strongly enough, you’ll be amazed at what you can do.
The power to affect your future lies within your own hands.
Achieving your vision doesn’t mean you’ve reached the end of the line. It simply means that you’ve come to a new starting place.
Simmering resentment saps energy.
Hatred is the most destructive force on earth. It does the most damage to those who harbor it.
Only when your memories are more important to you than your goals are you old.
When we carve out a niche for ourselves in our imagined future, and decide that we won’t be happy until we achieve it, we can only feel threatened and anxious over anything that stands in our way.
Make education a continuing, never-ending process.
It’s not enough to create value, you have to interpret the value for your prospects and customers so that they can feel the value emotionally and empirically.