“If you don’t seek perfection, you can never reach excellence.”

Whether you like it or not, you will leave a leadership legacy.

The only job security you have today is your commitment to continuous personal improvement.

If you want your people to be responsible, be responsive to their needs.

Your mind and a computer have one thing in common: neither of them know the difference between the truth and what you tell it.

Everyone knows that not all change is good or even necessary. But in a world that is constantly changing, it is to our advantage to learn how to adapt and enjoy something better.

Too many leaders act as if the sheep. Their people are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.

When you touch – don’t take. Touch people only when you are giving something – reassurance, support, encouragement, whatever

The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.

Empowerment is all about letting go so that others can get going.

Life is special when you reach out beyond yourself to be a true servant leader for others.

When you stop learning you stop growing.

Catching people doing things right is a powerful management concept.

Leadership is not something you do to people. It’s something you do with people.

We can’t control everything in life, that’s for sure, but we can reach out to the people we love to tell them we love and care about them.

Have I done what is really important today?

All good performance starts with clear goals.

She is black girl excellent, she is me and I am her.

It takes time to create excellence. If it could be done quickly, more people would do it.

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Excellence does not begin in Washington.

Choose to achieve perfection. We won’t achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.

The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.

I’m a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out.