There's gift I've ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike.

It was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like it was so it was all wrapped up

but it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing shaped like a bike and I had a little ribbon on it

and I was so guest. For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now

so for that one change me a little.

Joy and every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

This John Maxwell who said leadership is influence nothing more nothing less. Your ability to influence people within the sphere of your periphery.

It's not about making a nice impression. It's about making an impact. It's about doing your best.

I learned how to make an impact from the wisest person I ever met in my life. A third grade dropouts.

That third grade dropout the wisest person I ever met in my life who taught me to combine knowledge and wisdom to make an impact was my father.

My father taught himself how to read taught himself how to write.

Decided in the midst of Jim Crowism as America was breathing the last gas with the Civil War.

My father decided he was going to stand and be a man. Not a black man, not a brown man, not a white man, but a man.

Saying this boys I won't have a problem if you aim high and miss but I'm going to have a real issue if you aim low and hit.

Quoting Henry Ford saying if you think you can or if you think you can't, you're right.

Lessons like me son don't judge people. The tendency of a person is to walk away from somebody that's different from them.

You stay there and you get to know them. Vision is the ability to see the indiscible. Don't judge.

Son you'd rather be an hour early than a minute late. We never knew what time it was at my house because the clocks were always ahead.

30 years my father left the house at 3.45 in the morning. Why daddy? He said maybe one of my boys will catch me in the act of excellence.

Aristotle said you are what you repeatedly do. Therefore excellence ought to be a habit. Not an act.

You're going to do a job. Do it right. Do it the right way. Be kind to people. He always told us kind deeds are never lost.

Ego is the anesthesia that dens the pain of stupidity pride is the burden of a foolish person. You'll never be a great executive.

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