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

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.

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.

Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.