If Albert Einstein was right, Cal Ripken should have been a CEO or politician rather than a shortstop, because Ripken led by example over and over... and over again.

The great ones realize that what you did yesterday guarantees you nothing today. The challenge is too many people are busy celebrating yesterday's success.

You gotta do common things, uncommonly well.

Decisions are the frequent fabric of our daily design.

We should all strive to be extraordinary, and that starts with a focus on our own capabilities instead of those of our opponents.

It’s not about making money for themselves or the company, but making a difference in the lives of others.

There is a strong sense of understanding, appreciation, shared responsibility, and trust that unites and motivates the team to work together.

Great companies connect to the heartstrings of their employees to make their purposes known.

We all think that the answer to everything is to add more and to do more and to try more. Sometimes you have to have the discipline to say no and to believe in the process that you have established.

In the end, leadership comes down to consistency and strong, confident action upon which the team can rely - and this doesnt mean imposing a bunch of rules.

When leaders of a professional team perform a scan, they examine the trends dominating their customer demographics, education, government policy, and especially their competition.

I find great strength in overcoming struggle’s of life.

In the 21st century, it can't be about who we might make, and what they might do, anymore. It has to be about who we are and what we're going to do.

Our measure of hope is in direct proportion to our ability to conquer hopelessness.

Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave-and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.

You can't make rules regarding the moral behavior of something unless you know what the hell it is, and what it's capacities are. What it can do, what it can't do.

Preachers say, "Do as I say, not as I do." But if a physician had the same disease upon him that I have, and he should bid me do one thing and he do quite another, could I believe him?

Even when I was in my 20s and at my most beautiful, I was never obsessed with my looks. I didn't dye my hair or wear make-up.

For the state of our union to be strong, we need to place value in Americans.

No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying.

It is not possible to be incidentally a Christian. The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing.