A leader is the one who speaks last and acts first.

Great leaders don't blame the tools they are given. Great leaders work to sharpen them.

The leaders who get the most out of their people are the leaders who care most about their people.

A leader's job is not just to get the best out of their people-a leader's job is to make more leaders.

If you hire people just because they can do a job, they'll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they'll work for you with blood, sweat, and tears.

The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs what you have. The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe.

Bad leaders believe that they have to project control at all times.

Believing that your competition is stronger and better than you pushes you to better yourselves.

When we are in groups, when we are surrounded by people who believe what we believe, trust emerges and our very survival and progress goes up.

If you talk about what you believe, you will attract those who believe what you believe.

The difference between those who do and those who don't is that those who don't believe it when they are told they can't.

When we are selective about doing business only with those who believe in our WHY, trust emerges.

Courage isn't inside; it's external. It comes from someone else telling you they believe in you.

You are authentic when everything you say and everything you do you ACTUALLY believe.

We are drawn to leaders and organizations that are good at communicating what they believe. Their ability to make us feel like we belong, to make us feel special, safe and not alone is part of what gives them the ability to inspire us.

Work with people who believe what you believe.

Your work is your own private megaphone to tell the world what you believe.

What you do simply proves what you believe.

Stories are our attempts to share our values & beliefs with the hopes that we may attract those who believe what we believe. This is the basis of forming a trusting relationship. Story telling, therefor, is only worthwhile when it tells what you stand for, not what you do.

The goal of business should not be to do business with anyone who simply wants what you have. It should be to focus on the people who believe what you believe. When we are selective about doing business only with those who believe in our WHY, trust emerges.

Great leaders give everyone something to believe in, not something to do.

People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it. And what you do simply proves what you believe

I'm very prescriptive about who I work with. I'm very clear about what I believe. If they believe what I believe I will work with them. If they say things like, "Convince me we should do this." I walk away.

Confidence is believing in yourself. Arrogance is telling others you’re better than they are. Confidence inspires. Arrogance destroys.

Great companies don’t hire skilled people and motivate them, they hire already motivated people and inspire them. People are either motivated or they are not. Unless you give motivated people something to believe in, something bigger than their job to work toward, they will motivate themselves to find a new job and you’ll be stuck with whoever’s left.

People will do as they are told by someone who outranks them, but they will only follow someone they believe in.

What you do is proof of what you believe.

I try to find, celebrate and teach leaders how to build platforms that will inspire others.

If we inspire people, they will give us more than we asked for. If we manipulate them, they will give us exactly what we paid for

There are leaders and there are those who lead. Leaders hold a position of power or influence. Those who lead inspire us.

Don't give to get. Give to inspire others to give.

Employees represent an opportunity to inspire not a burden to carry.

Words may inspire, but only ACTION creates change. Most of us live our lives by accident - we live life as it happens. Fulfillment comes when we live our lives on purpose.

I don't care about convincing the people who think I'm naive or an idiot. I'm interested in how do I inspire the people who are open-minded that there's a different way of seeing the world.

The true value of a leader is not measured by the work they do. A leader's true value is measured by the work they inspire others to do.

Words may inspire but only action creates change.

And it's those who start with why, that have the ability to inspire those around them or find others who inspire them.

There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.

You'll never see the president carry his own luggage, and why? Because even though we know he has luggage, it would reduce his stature if he was too much like us. We need to think of our leaders as being above us, even though they must still relate to us.

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

No matter how many or how few people you have reporting to you, you must remember that as you climb higher in the ranks, your words will be taken as commands even if you're just thinking out loud.

Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don't think we can achieve something beyond what we're qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams?

I think most people are inherently interested in how their brain works, in what makes them tick.

The ad industry thinks their clients are their customers. They think the companies who pay for the production are the ones they are supposed to serve. So the ads they produce make their clients happy... but infuriate the rest of us.

Great leaders and great organizations are good at seeing what most of us can’t see. They are good at giving us things we would never think of asking for.

You have to be careful what you think you know.

Communication is not about speaking what we think. Communication is about ensuring others hear what we mean.

The worst leaders are the once that think they have to know as much or more than the people who work with them. The best leaders are the once who know that their employees know hell of a lot more than what they know and willing to admit it whilst expressing the value of their employees.

We think leadership is about rank and power, but better to think of leadership as the responsibility for other human beings. That leadership and rank may not go together. So it manifests in this remarkable way.

True love is when both people think they have the better half of the deal.