When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and...

Think about it, the word listen and the word silent are spelled with the same letters. In order to be a good listener, we first need to lear...

Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of help except by being kind, generous, and patient. Henry Miller Henr...

SEALs train with the philosophy slow is smooth and smooth is fast. That’s how movements and behaviors become muscle memory – something imper...

Patience will achieve more than force.  Edmund Burke

I’ll tell you what leadership is. It’s persuasion and conciliation and education and patience. It’s long, slow, tough work. That’s the only ...

“We don’t eat it all; we don’t plant it all.” I Am the Grand Canyon: The Story of the Havasupai People by Stephen Hirst. Grand Canyon Assoc...

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. … All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it pat...

If you can keep your head when all about you        Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,    If you can trust yourself when all men doubt...

L et's ban the phrase. Instead of writing, "Sorry for the delay," say, "Thank you for your patience." You can even e...

Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all li...

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling wi...

Oftentimes we are like the young merchant from Boston, who in 1849, as the story goes, was caught up in the fervor of the California g...

One of my favorite books is The Power of Ethical Management, written by Ken Blanchard and Norman Vincent Peale. In their book, Blanchard an...

[P]atience is not passive resignation, nor is it failing to act because of our fears. Patience means active waiting and enduring. It means ...

In the 1960s, a professor at Stanford University began a modest experiment testing the willpower of four-year-old children. He placed befo...

According to [Dominic] Barton, the experience of the scandal [ two senior McKinsey executives had been arrested for insider trading ] ta...

‘No condition is permanent’. [A Nigerian admonition, carried on the side of trucks and busses during the 2003 elections.]     Marti...

Many aspiring leaders think that leadership is about being the smartest person in the room, the loudest, the most charismatic, or the wea...

My experience has been that there are times to teach and times not to teach. When relationships are strained and the air charged with emo...