Decision-making is a skill. Wisdom is a leadership trait.

When faced with a challenging or difficult situation, the best leaders most often respond with courage; less mature leaders, or nonleaders often choose another path-a path with less risk, less conflict, and less personal discomfort.

You can win in business by playing checkers until someone sneaks in one night after you’ve closed for the day and flips the board.

Believe in your ability to create the future. That’s what leaders do-that is our job. Understand reality but never be imprisoned by it. Reality is a moment in time. The future has not yet been...

You cannot run a multimillion-dollar business like you would a lemonade stand.

The heart is a muscle, and you strengthen muscles by using them. The more I lead with my heart, the stronger it gets.

When you see recurring problems, the methods you’ve used successfully in the past have to be reevaluated.

Cookbooks are almost a substitution for a lost sense of culture. People want some other life than the one they’re living, so they buy a cookbook with pictures and imagine themselves as part of that...

The best leaders want to leverage all the capabilities of the people in their organization.

The glass is always completely full-half air and half liquid.

You can lead with or without a title. If you wait until you get a title, you may wait forever.

To see your-self you must first be yourself, to be your-self you must first know yourself, and to know your-self you must first love your-self more than anything in the world.”-Mark Miller

Others control our opportunities, we control our readiness.

Many of our leadership practices have gone from being tried and true to being tired and tarnished.

There is nothing left but the attempt and not trying is the same as failing.

When you don’t have time to do your job, that’s a good indication you’re playing the wrong game.

If you don’t demonstrate leadership character, your skills and your results will be discounted, if not dismissed.

When you expect the best from people, you will often see more in them than they see in themselves.