Great leaders motivate large groups of individuals to improve the human condition.

The central issue is never strategy, structure, culture, or systems. The core of the matter is always about changing the behavior of people.

Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome.

The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.

Leadership defines what the future should look like, aligns people with that vision, and inspires them to make it happen despite the obstacles.

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.

Without credible communication, and a lot of it, the hearts and minds of others are never captured.

A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.

We learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us.

Changing behavior is less a matter of giving people analysis to influence their thoughts than helping them to see a truth to influence their feelings.

Anyone in a large organization who thinks major change is impossible should probably get out.

That's the thing about fear. Death will kill you once, but fear kills you over and over and over, if you let it.

Men? One never knows where to find them. The wind blows them away. They have no roots, and that makes their life very difficult.

The precious gift of life alone, is more than enough to give thanks to God on a daily basis.

I hope you don’t listen to this. I hope you choose to broaden, and not contract, your ambit of concern.

Don't give up your life because balance is important, but when you're young you have energy, use it!

Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

God is the Lord of human history and of the personal history of every member of His redeemed family.

U.S. foreign policy is in every area impacted by ethnic groups of one sort or another as well as economic groups and regional groups.

However, music and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

I can be someone's and still be my own.