The opposite of a leader isn't a follower. The opposite of a leader is a pessimist.

Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground.

The difference between a pebble and a mountain lies in whom you ask to move it.

Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.

Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time.

The secret to living a strong life is right in front of you, calling to you every day. It can be found in your emotional reaction to specific moments in your life.

Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.

People leave managers, not companies

In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.

Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.

Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.

I've seen my mother struggling, everything that she did to raise me and my brothers and my sisters, and I know the anger that she went through.

Don't follow leaders, watch your parkin' meters.

If you are always trying to do something for a cause bigger than you - connected with serving others - then it is hard to be guilty.

You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused.

I never really had much problem scoring a fight, you call it the way you see it. The most important thing is concentration you really got to concentrate.

Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie... But rather mourn the apathetic throng - The cowed and the meek - Who see the world's great anguish and its wrong And dare not speak!

Any place that manufactures humans into weapons is going to piss off a couple members of X-Force. I always want a personal reason for why these characters take on these missions.

Nobody got anything great by playing it safe.