“Keep focused on the substantive issues. To make a decision means having to go through one door and closing all others.”

Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination.

Innovation grows out of membership and a sure sense of responsibility people feel for their work and the organizations that employ them.

Imagination in business is the ability to perceive opportunity.

Leaders adopt a personal and active attitude toward goals.

In other words, leaders are visionaries and managers operate within those established visions.

The direction an organization takes. The net result of this influence is to change the way people think about what is desirable, possible, and necessary.

The influence a leader exerts in altering moods, evoking images and expectations, and in establishing specific desires and objectives determines

Leaders are active instead of reactive, shaping ideas instead of responding to them.

If you want to understand entrepreneurs, you have to study the psychology of the juvenile delinquent. They don’t have the same anxiety triggers that we have.

Leadership requires using power to influence the thoughts and actions of other people.

So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.

I spent so much time focusing on haters that I forgot about the people that actually love me. And that’s who I’m focused on this time around: the people that want to listen. The people that don’t want to listen, don’t listen. This is for the people that want to.

I hadn’t focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.

I really played a lot this year. Sometimes it’s really hard to stay focused all the time because you’re really tired after the whole season.

So the idea of being able to shop cross-category to buy the beach bag, the summer lip gloss, and the pillows for your pool house makes it into very focused, easy life.

Usually, whatever’s in front of me is what I’m focused on and it’s 100% on that and then I kind of move from one thing to the next.

I show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused.

I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books which cast a rare light on the elusive realm of North Korea.