...while everyone's focusing on keeping the boss happy, who's focusing on keeping the customer happy?

Leadership: The skill of influencing people to work enthusiastically toward goals identified as being for the common good.

Authority: The skill of getting people to willingly do your will, because of your personal influence.

Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.

Who then is the greatest leader? The one who has served the most.

Power: The ability to force or coerce someone to do your will, even if they would choose not to, because of your position or your might.

There is great joy in leading with authority, which is serving others by meeting their legitimate needs.

Those who follow the crowd will never be followed by the crowd.

INTENTIONS + ACTION = WILL

A seagull manager is one who periodically flies into the area, makes a lot of noise, dumps on the people, maybe eats their lunch, and flies away.

Authority cannot be bought or sold, given or taken away.

To enlighten your life, see beauty.

One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.

This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression.

Sorry for the tune up between time, but what the hell, cowboys are the only ones who stay in tune, anyway.

...God knows you can have complication and difficulty without any compensating depth or seriousness

What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not worth reading.

No evil is without its compensation.

There’s nothing more amazing than the sound of a screaming crowd. Nothing.

My idea of a vacation is staying home and doing short day hikes, floating the river and things like that.

I tend to listen to my friends and family empathetically, and I try to help work through their problems from the inside. I try to adopt their thinking.