“Present thinking people kill the future.”

Vision comes alive when everyone sees where his or her contribution makes a difference.

Your game is only as good as your practice.

Things not worth doing are not worth doing well.

If becoming a high performing organization is the destination, leadership is the engine.

People who feel good about themselves produce good results.

Take a minute: look at your goals, look at your performance, see if your behavior matches your goals.

As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there.

Business is like tennis. Those who serve well win.

You have the power to help people become winners.

Take what you do seriously, but yourself lightly.

Knowing where you are going is the first step to getting there.

Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven’t learned a thing until you take action and use it.

Everyday do something in relation to everything that’s important to you.

We are not just our behavior. We are the person managing our behavior.

Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals of the organization. When people see that connection, they get a lot of energy out of work. They feel the importance, dignity, and meaning in their job.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Self-care often means doing what you don’t feel like doing in the present moment to benefit the future.

We cannot forget to carve out the future of Japan ten or one hundred years into the future.

You lose a lot of friends when you start focusing on your future dreams.

Our present thoughts determine our future actions.  

Tomorrow it’ll all be over, then I’ll have to go back to selling pens again.

Youth is the biggest resource we have on the earth below the earth and above the earth.

Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.

President Obama is right – we can’t just imagine a better future. We have to fight for it. One more day. Let’s give it all we’ve got.