“If God had wanted us to talk more than listen, he would have given us two mouths rather than two ears.”

In the past a leader was a boss. Today’s leaders must be partners with their people. They no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

If we want people on the front lines of companies to be responsible for making good business decisions, they must have the same information that managers use to make good business decisions.

Vision is a lot more than putting a plaque on the wall. A real vision is lived, not framed.

The first principle of ethical power is Purpose… It is the picture you have of yourself – the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.

Leadership is anytime you seek to influence the thinking, behavior, or development of others.

Asking for other’s guidance helps you see what you may not be able to see. It’s always important to check your ego and ask for help.

Beware of putting all your focus into results. While results are important, your people should be your number one area of focus.

Your role as a leader is even more important than you might imagine. You have the power to help people become winners.

The best minute you spend is the one you invest in people.

A problem only exists if there is a difference between what is actually happening and what you desire to be happening.

The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization.

Customer service should not be a department, customer service is everyone’s job.

Honesty is telling the truth to ourselves and others. Integrity is living that truth.

Whether you like it or not, you will leave a leadership legacy.

The only job security you have today is your commitment to continuous personal improvement.

If you want your people to be responsible, be responsive to their needs.

Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.

You shake and rattle me with your turbulent eyes sending my body sky high.

All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.

As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.

I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.

Government is not a trade which any man or body of men has a right to set up and exercise for his own emolument, but is altogether a trust, in right of those by whom that trust is delegated, and by whom it is always resumable. It has of itself no rights; they are altogether duties.

Her delicate breasts shake his enormous apparatus in elaborate worship.

Air you breathe is bad for your lungs so you’ve got to careful and don’t overdue any bad air. Too much pot, too much anything is not good. Your lung is a piece of flesh, a piece of bone. You can injure it.