Goethe recommended, "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.

One of the best applications of this idea is expressed in what I call the 101 percent principle: Find the one thing that you believe is the potential leader's greatest asset, and then give 101 percent encouragement in that area. Focusing on a person's strengths promotes positive growth, confidence, and success as a potential leader.

I'm sick of people sittin' in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape... then we have our experts on the topic... I'm in the 'What's next?' phase of my career.

Many people, in their attempt to build a successful life, forget there are tools to help them.

Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.

We have to take our anger and rage and channel it into building, growing, loving, holding each other up.

Shield your son too much, Jessica, and he'll not grow strong enough to fulfill any destiny.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

My leadership began to take flight when I allowed myself to press people to change-whether they thanked me or cursed me.

You are capable of much more than you are presently thinking, imagining, doing or being.

When we are ready to make positive changes in our lives, we attract whatever we need to help us.