A core value is something you're willing to get punished for.

If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.

Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.

Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team.

Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.

Members of trusting teams admit weaknesses and mistakes, take risks in offering feedback and assistance, and focus time and energy on important issues, not politics.

When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, an attempt to find the best possible answer.

Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.

Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.

If you’re not interested in getting better, it’s time for you to stop leading.

It's as simple as this. When people don't unload their opinions and feel like they've been listened to, they won't really get on board.

Build a little fence of trust Around today Fill the space with loving work And therein stay.

Music doesn't solve your problems..but allows you to dance all over them

Sin is the most expensive thing in the universe. Nothing else can cost so much.

I'm so sick and tired of hearing about slavery. You think slavery didn't exist in Africa? Even Indian tribes.

To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live.

All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.

Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution.

When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

I cannot, in my old age, live off pieces of my youth.

This body is yours. It is your home. The keeper of your soul. The resting place of your spirit. No one can ever take that away.