The problem you think you have may not be your real problem, and so the solution you come up with may not be the right solution. That happens partly because you get so close to the problem that you lose perspective on it.

The key to quality of life is in the compass—it’s in the choices we make every day.

This is crucial because great management typically comes from playing to your strengths rather than from fixing your weaknesses

Dysfunction 1: Absence of trust. Teams must have high levels of vulnerability-based trust where people are completely comfortable being transparent and honest with one another, and prepared to sacrifice their egos for the good of the team.

Whatever a man depends upon, whatever rules his mind, whatever governs his affections, whatever is the chief object of his delight, is his god.

To go forward, we need to move faster. And as leaders, we need to stay ahead, we need to see more than others, and we need to see before others.

Only you can take inner freedom away from yourself, or give it to yourself. Nobody else can.

Marriage comes as a revolution. To have lived as a one and then suddenly become a two—that is an invasion. And yet there is a prize. People in long, happy marriages have won the lottery of life.

From a germ’s point of view, genital sores, diarrhea, and coughing are 'symptoms of disease.' From a germ’s point of view, they’re clever evolutionary strategies to broadcast the germ.

Power is often associated with wealth, but even when it is not, power and its associated status and prestige can be used to generate financial resources.