Renewed anointing restores peace.

Gun for a “Yes” straight off the bat, though, and your counterpart gets defensive, wary, and skittish.

Above all, business success requires two things: a winning competitive strategy, and superb organizational execution. Distrust is the enemy of both. I submit that while high trust won’t necessarily rescue a poor strategy, low trust will almost always derail a good one.

I’m convinced you would be hard-pressed to come up with a deposit that has more impact in the family than making and keeping promises.

The solution is to keep only what resonates in a trusted place that you control, and to leave the rest aside.

Being a leader requires: Strong faith in life: keep a faith in what is best for yourself and for others.

Without effort, your talent is nothing more than your unmet potential. Without effort, your skill is nothing more than what you could have done but didn’t. With effort, talent becomes skill and, at the very same time, effort makes skill productive.

He was an underdog and a misfit, and that gave him the freedom to try things no one else even dreamt of.

Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response.

Discipline is paying the price to bring that vision into reality. It’s dealing with the hard, pragmatic, brutal facts of reality and doing what it takes to make things happen.