Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about themselves, and small people talk about others

Most people don't like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.

If you want to reach the top, don't run over others. Likely, the only way you'll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.