When one side benefits more than the other, that’s a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a while, but in the long run, it breeds resentment and distrust.
The fire inside people is like a match; the way to ignite that flame is initially through friction, then other matches are lit through warmth.
Your systems are perfectly designed to get the results that you are getting.
Communication is the most important single activity of man.
Be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment.
Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism.
The greatest thing you can do for your children is love your spouse.
Before you wonder “Am I doing things right?” wonder “Am I doing the right things?”
Through it all I have learned that parenting is basically a life of self sacrifice.
The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don’t have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.
Leaders are not born or made – they are self made.
The ability to establish, grow, extend, and restore trust is the key professional and personal competency of our time.
Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.
Highly proactive people don’t blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice.
Writing distills, crystallizes, and clarifies thought.
The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.
The role of the leader is to foster mutual respect and build a complementary team where each strength is made productive and each weakness irrelevant.
We all go through stages. Concerns about appearances, making good impressions, being popular, comparing yourself to others, having unbridled ambition, wanting to make money, striving to be recognized and noticed and trying to establish yourself, all fade as your responsibilities and character grow.
You don’t see the world as it is, you see it according to who you are.
Values determine behavior; Principles determine the consequences of behavior.