Most people live with pleasant illusions, but leaders must deal with hard realities.
Leverage is the ability to apply positive pressure on yourself to follow through on your decisions even when it hurts.
Never complain about what you permit to be.
Excuses are used to justify leaving the scene of truth without changing.
Success is assured when a person fears the pain of regret more than the pain of the process.
Leaders must see the dream in their mind before they will accomplish the dream with their team.
Unsolved problems on the inside of a person stop success more often than problems on the outside of a person.
If the only thing that you are good at is convincing others that you are good, then being in biz with you is bad experience.
Until you accept responsibility for your life, someone else runs your life.
Leaders speak truth into people who believe lies about themselves.
People love being around those who serve them.
A passive mindset "manages" to live with mediocre, but an active mindset "leads" to change until excellence results.
Without courage, it doesn't matter how good the leader's intentions are.
Leaders who won't own failures become failures.
Leadership Principle: As hunger increases, excuses decrease.
When the urgent crowds out the important, people urgently accomplish nothing of value.
Most people over estimate others talents and underestimate their own.
If you aren't loyal to the few you won't be blessed with the many.
Leaders dig into their business to learn painful realities rather than peaceful illusion.
Death is only a tragedy when life's purpose was left unfulfilled.
A low self-image is usually not based upon facts; it's mismanaged memory.
No business can be made easier to do than excuses are to make.
Those who do not study their businesses do not stay in business.
Leaders don't correct people to success as much as believe them to it.
Attitude is the ability to reframe the experience to empower you to future victories
