“The first principle of ethical power is Purpose… It is the picture you have of yourself – the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.”

Don’t quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.

As a leader, the most important earthly relationship you can cultivate is your relationship with yourself.

Most companies spend all their time looking for another management concept and very little time following up the one they have just taught their managers.

Leadership is about going somewhere. If you and your people don’t know where you are going, your leadership doesn’t matter.

Don’t wait until people do things exactly right before you praise them.

Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.

One of the deepest principles of life and leadership: it’s not about you.

In fact, Jesus is mentioned 75 times in the Koran.

If you want to know why your people are not performing well, step up to the mirror and take a peek.

Catch people in the act of doing something right.

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

None of us is as smart as all of us.

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.

Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.

I am ruled by emotion. She is a fickle leader of a volatile kingdom, where conniving skies cast intemperate clouds over my constitution.

Good leaders are scarce; so I’m following myself.

In order to lead people, you have to get to know them.

Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.

Leadership is a choice one makes.

Two weeks ago we couldn’t pronounce your name, but you were in the lead in a film that made millions, so we’re sending you all these scripts.

Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits. Obeying the ego leads to bondage; obeying the soul brings liberation.