What I've learned is that if you really want to be successful at something, you'll find that you put the time in. You won't just ask somebody if it's a good idea, you'll go figure out if it's a good idea.

Organizations are successful because of good implementation, not good business plans.

If you don't love everybody, you can't sell anybody.

And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;

In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. It is good business to have an employee feel part of the entire effort… I motivate people, I hope by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having provocative ideas to make others feel involved.

My father had a simple test that helps me measure my own leadership quotient: When you are out of the office, he once asked me, does your staff carry on remarkable well without you?