“A problem only exists if there is a difference between what is actually happening and what you desire to be happening.”

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.

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

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.

A river without banks is a large puddle.

Vision is knowing who you are, where you’re going, and what will guide your journey.

A little flattery makes people feel good about themselves. When you notice someone looking great, give them a compliment.

Present thinking people kill the future.

Before something can become a habit it must first be practiced as a discipline.

Empowering means helping teams develop their skills and knowledge and supporting them to use their talents.

Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.

If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

To fight against one’s desires is the greatest of all fights.

If you don’t want to be ordinary, you have to act like every meal you have is the last fucking meal you will ever have! You must have an insatiable desire for more!