“A river without banks is a large puddle.”

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.

People don’t mind being challenged to do better if they know the request is coming from a caring heart.

Effective team leaders adjust their style to provide what the group can’t provide for itself.

Real communication happens when people feel safe.

Purpose can never be about achievement; it is much bigger.

I’m drowning in whiskey river.

After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.

I was the ocean you wanted rivers; I was the moon you chased the stars.

I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.

Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow.

I could weep for a river-valley, and I have. But for a country? Oh man, I don’t know.

Don’t burn bridges. You’ll be surprised how many times you have to cross the same river.

Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family.