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If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

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If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

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Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

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An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.

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Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

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It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

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Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

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We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

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If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

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Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

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There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.

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Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

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Studies have identified a significant 'skills gap' between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today's global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.

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Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

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Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

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Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

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When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence.

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The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

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The solutions to our problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history.

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Every time you think the problem is 'out there,' that very thought is the problem.

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

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Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

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