“Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, “like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic”.”

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present.

Being is seeing in the human dimension.

Begin with the end in mind.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.

Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.

We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.

You have two ears and one mouth. Use them accordingly.

The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

It’s better to be trusted than to be liked.

Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech. What we say may be less important than how we say it.

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.

To achieve goals you’ve never achieved before, you need to start doing things you’ve never done before.

Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are – or, as we are conditioned to see it.

I think the Americans are ready to play, they want to beat us. I think that players like Chris Chelios and his leadership over there goes a long way.

Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.

I wasn’t naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that’s the way I’ll be as a coach.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to lead.

Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.

Your goal as a leader isn’t to be indispensable to the people you lead; it is to leave your people something that is indispensable to them.

Good thinkers are always in demand. A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss.

There’s no perfect coach in the world. Coaches are human, too. Mistakes are made. But, fundamentally, if you’re sound, you eliminate as many mistakes as possible.