“Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less. How do you gain influence from people? You invest in them. How do you invest in them? It starts with giving them time.”

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

Nothing speaks like results. If you want to build the kind of credibility that connects with people, then deliver results before you deliver a message. Get out and do what you advise others to do. Communicate from experience.

Find something you like to do so much that you would gladly do it for nothing; then learn to do it so well that people are happy to pay you for it.

All leaders make mistakes. They are a part of life. Successful leaders recognize their errors, learn from them, and work to correct their faults.

Your life today is a result of your thinking yesterday. Your life tomorrow will be determined by what you think today.

You build trust with others each time you choose integrity over image, truth over convenience, or honor over personal gain.

The highway of life is filled with flat squirrels that couldn’t make a decision.

To be an influencer, you have to love people before you can try to lead them.

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn’t show yet.

People who blame others for their failures never overcome them. They simply move from problem to problem. To reach your potential, you must continually improve yourself, and you can’t do that if you don’t take responsibility for your actions and learn from your mistakes.

If your habits don’t line up with your dream, then you need to either change your habits or change your dream.

True success is obeying God.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get things done, and those who don’t want to make mistakes.

When values, thoughts, feelings, and actions are in alignment, a person becomes focused and character is strengthened.

It’s better to prepare than to repair.

It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.

Be careful what you choose to do consciously, for unless your will is very strong, that is what you may have to do repeatedly and compulsively through the habit-influencing power of the subconscious mind.

When my dad played me ‘Walking Man,’ I heard those chord changes and that melody, it completely blew me away. Maybe you wouldn’t really hear the James Taylor influences in my music, but they’re definitely buried in there.

The more you care about the powerless, the more power you have. The more you serve those with no influence, the more influence God gives you. The more you humble yourself, the more you’re honored by others.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

You can’t influence people you refuse to associate with.

Whatever I do, I do with the greatest love that I have in me. Try this, and you will see that you do not become fatigued at all. Love is one of the greatest stimulants to the will. Under the influence of love the will can do almost anything.