True self-confidence is not reflected in a title, an expensive suit, a fancy car, or a series of acquisitions. It is reflected in your mindset: your openness and readiness to grow. Confident people and high achievers are relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary.

In war, this is the ultimate dichotomy: a leader may have to send his most treasured asset—his people—into a situation that gets them wounded or killed.

All leaders, in order to truly lead, need to walk the halls and spend time with the people they serve, “eyeball leadership,” as the Marines call it.

Goals born from inspiration feel light, energizing, and fulfilling. They arise from a place of abundance and joy, where the act of creation itself is the reward.

Only in Christianity is there a clear basis for regarding each other as having profound worth. Christians believe that within every person, something exists of inestimable value.

A great lawyer will help you focus on what really matters (economics and control), while a bad lawyer will make everything worse for you. So choose an experienced lawyer.

Look at things not as they are, but as they can be. Visualization adds value to everything. A big thinker always visualizes what can be done in the future. He isn’t stuck with the present

Read your plan out loud twice a day and make sure you have full faith in yourself.

When life has been bad, someone goes to see a therapist because even though things look pretty on the outside the person feels horrible on the inside, and this is a discrepancy that even many therapists cannot hold.

No matter how dramatic the end result, the good-to-great transformations never happened in one fell swoop. There was no single defining action, no grand program… Good to great comes about by a cumulative process – step by step.