Collaboration is an inside-out mindset. It has to start on the inside, with the Heart.

As a leader, it's your job to get everyone to share what they know.

Sometimes the best way to get other people to give up their egos is for you to give up yours first.

Collaboration begins with focusing on the collective good rather than personal gain.

When your heart is right, you want to bring out the best in others.

In order for collaboration to take place, managers must give up their silos and their perceptions of power.

Genuine collaboration is an environment that promotes communication, learning, maximum contribution, and innovation.

Collaboration requires focusing on everything from vision and values to how individuals can feel they are making a real contribution.

You can't fool nature.

People are so busy polishing their past, that they forget to paint their future.

Confidence is overrated. It's when we're uncomfortable and looking for answers that we learn and grow the most.

In practice, socialism didnt work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.

My favorite part is that 1-on-1 matchup... Block out everything else and stare into that guys eyes.

I was actually very ugly. I was ugly. I felt very insecure.

A nation that turns away from prayer will ultimately find itself in desperate need of it.

For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research.

Life is a beautiful struggle.

It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.