“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”

Patience provide perspective.

Success comes when we wake up every day in that never-ending pursuit of why we do what we do.

Leadership is not about being in charge. Leadership is about taking care of those in your charge.

All organizations start with why, but only the great ones keep their why clear year after year.

Leadership is not a license to do less. Leadership is a responsibility to do more.

When you compete against everyone else, no one wants to help you. But when you compete against yourself, everyone wants to help you.

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

What you do is proof of what you believe.

In a society hooked on immediate gratification, it’s hard to remember that each of us is on our own timeline.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

Leadership takes work. It takes time and energy. The effects are not always easily measured and they are not always immediate. Leadership is always a commitment to human beings.

Progress is more important than perfection.

We fall in love with someone when they show us, consistently, that they’re willing to put our needs ahead of their own.

If you sell what you do, you’re a vendor. If you sell why you do it, you’re a brand.

As the Zen Buddhist saying goes, how you do anything is how you do everything.

Innovation is not born from the dream, innovation is born from the struggle.

My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.

I’m probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don’t think anyone really knows. You’ll either find out or not when you get there, until then there’s no point thinking about it.

Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.

The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.

By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You’ve just got to keep moving. You can’t stop.

In the 1960s, The National Education Association changed its character. The NEA changed into a union. And from that point on you can see deterioration in the quality of schooling in the United States.

A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.

Whoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others.