“Business is like tennis. Those who serve well win.”

As a leader, the most important earthly relationship you can cultivate is your relationship with yourself.

Most companies spend all their time looking for another management concept and very little time following up the one they have just taught their managers.

Leadership is about going somewhere. If you and your people don’t know where you are going, your leadership doesn’t matter.

Don’t wait until people do things exactly right before you praise them.

Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.

One of the deepest principles of life and leadership: it’s not about you.

In fact, Jesus is mentioned 75 times in the Koran.

If you want to know why your people are not performing well, step up to the mirror and take a peek.

Catch people in the act of doing something right.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

If God had wanted us to talk more than listen, he would have given us two mouths rather than two ears.

What we give our attention to, grows.

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.

Hire smart people and then get out of their way.

Never let your fears hold you back from pursuing your hopes.

The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all.

I try to invest in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.

It’s every man’s business to see justice done.

You need to get one thing done well, or else you don’t have permission to do anything else.

Too many kings can ruin an army.

When you struggle with a problem, that’s when you understand it.