Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.

Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.

Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it...only business people think it isn't necessary to train.

The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.

Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, 'Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.' Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!

Lifeless life is the very thing Jesus came to rescue us from.

Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.

If I had been a little dog I'd have gone leaping and gambolling around the room wagging my tail furiously.

Truth has anciently been called the first casualty of war. Money may, in fact, have priority.

I had a really nice association with Richie DeRosa, a great musician, a great drummer and composer and arranger. And I had a number of classes with him.

My success is not about the wealth and fame. I am most concerned with my relationship to God, which is the most important.

I am a Doctor, but above all else I consider myself an activist for peace, justice and care for all people.

I love going to weddings.

You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.

In the liner notes, music is fine by itself. It doesn't need any explanation.