A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless... someone's got to make a wake up call.

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.

You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.

Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

Leaders must earn the trust of their teams, their organizations, and their stakeholders before attempting to engage their support.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together.

Don't let anyone infiltrate your happiness. Protect it as if it's all you have, because it literally is.

When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.

A couple's first task, it has always seemed to me, is to solve the problem of breakfast; if this can be worked out amicably, most other difficulties can too.

I think I've gone through my life with the understanding that you've got to let go and you can't think that you're going to control your destiny.

like I am Alice in the Wonderland and have gotten too big for the room.

The greatest obstacle to love is fear. It has been the source of all defects in human behavior throughout the ages.

Everything is made of atoms.

If I had to do it all over again, rather than build an old style type of business, I would have started building a network marketing business.

Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Give a man a sub-prime fish loan and you're in business, buddy.

Always be aware that you have the power to create the naturally stress-free and tranquil life you desire.