When your team questions your motives and methods, you have lost their trust and you will not be able to influence them.

Complacency doesn't make sense for a guy trying to redefine normal.

Man created language to be understood. It should be normal to understand what people convey to us. Fear, ulterior motives, and closed mindedness are the enemies of understanding.

Change needs practice. And practice needs patience.

The clearer you are about why you want to accomplish a goal, the easier it will be to figure how to accomplish it.

My role as CEO is to protect the company AND nurture it to grow.

Stop me when I'm making too much sense.

The role of a leader is to serve his people. We absolutely must first serve the people who we want to lead. They must be able to rely on the leader as much as we hope to rely on them.

If your team does not truly believe that you care about them, they will not follow you.

When your team questions your competence, your ability to influence is shot.

Some managers hire people they're excited to work with. I prefer to hire people I'm excited to dominate.

You ought to mediate on the Scriptures daily.

It only too often yields to the temptation to become sycophantic, opportunist and lying, like a politician who sees the truth but wants to keep his place in popular favour.

I learned that moral courage is harder than physical courage.

If you are the one who is dumped, then you feel like your life is over.

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

Are we going to discuss whatever it is you are here to discuss instead of dancing around it?” he asks. “I was never a particularly good dancer.

I thought that 'Twilight' would be a kind of girl movie, but it was cool.

Incense. Books. Just weird.

When you come from the Midwest, you have a more open mind than if you come from the West Coast or the East Coast.