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

It never hurts to toot your own horn once in a while.

Perpetual prosperity comes to those who help others.

Start your day with good intentions and set yourself up for a good attitude. It’s not what happens to you that matters but how you respond.

Successful organizations have one common central focus: Customers.

Do your best to succeed and push the limits without violating them.

Nice guys may appear to finish last, but usually they are running a different race.

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.

When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.

No one can make you serve customers well. That’s because great service is a choice.

The cure for too much to do is solitude and silence.

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.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass.

Companies face a handful of different risks, whether it is competitors or different market environments. But I think that people focus way too much on competitors and not enough on their own execution.

Excellence matters. I’ve pushed hard to increase our velocity, improve our execution, and focus on the big bets that will make a difference in the world.

The hardest thing when you think about focusing. You think focusing is about saying “Yes.” No. Focusing is about saying “No.” And when you say “No,” you piss off people.

It is a tremendous responsibility for us to have all the eyes focused on what we do and give people exactly what they need when they ask for it.

If we want to have the biggest impact, the best way to do this is to make sure we always focus on solving the most important problems.

We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.