Dentists encourage us to use dental floss daily to promote the health of our teeth; we need to use mental floss to get rid of old thinking and promote the health of our leadership.

The church is meant to be a community of spiritual friends and spiritual directors who journey together to God. We must become that community.

The 10X Rule assumes the target is never the problem. Any target attacked with the right actions in the right amounts with persistence is attainable.

Our economic and market principles were very different from most others, which accounted for our different results. As former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan put it, “The models failed at a time when we needed them most . . . JP Morgan had the American economy accelerating three days before [the Lehman Brothers’ collapse]—their model failed. The Fed model failed. The IMF model failed . . . So that left me asking myself: What happened?

A man who prays much in private will make short prayers in public.

There is a perception out there that once people get out of college, they stop learning. Well I’ve learned a heck of a lot in my twenty years at Duke and I know I have more to learn.

If you want to eliminate self-deception and reach your full potential, commit to always acting on the instinct to help other people in need.

With such variation in individuals on the team, the challenge for any leader was to raise the level of every member of the team so that they could perform at their absolute best.

Sometimes we rely on hints, sarcasm, innuendo, and looks of disgust to make our points. We play the martyr and then pretend we're actually trying to help. Afraid to confront an individual, we blame an entire team for a problem-hoping the message will hit the right target. We withhold meaning from the pool. We go to silence.

A genuinely sound business principle will apply anywhere in life—in your friendships, in your marriage, anywhere.