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 A leader’s courage is not for himself or herself; it’s for the people who are depending on him to lead. – Tim Marks
Tim Marks’s taught thousands this lesson --long term leadership’s depends on solid character. Marks reminded the standing-room-only crowd of business professionals that solid character often has roots in difficult childhoods and provided examples in the lives of greats such as Ronald Reagan and Winston Churchill.
Marks explained, “Here is one, Ronald Regan. Reagan didn’t become the man that he was when he was president or the years after he was president and the years he was before president over night. Ronald Regan actually started out in a different political party. When he couldn’t agree with the party’s behavior and agenda, he knew he had to leave. Reagan’s his character was forged over years of struggle.
“So many of us have probably had rough childhoods. If you haven’t had a rough childhood, then you are the minority. I know I could tell you on one hand the people teaching here that probably would say, ‘I had a great childhood.’ People that would say, ‘My parents they loved me and encouraged me. They were at all my football games. I never saw my dad get drunk....’
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 Successful people take the future into consideration in daily decisions. – Chuck Goetschel
Chuck Goetschel began his leadership lesson to thousands of independent business owners by sharing insights gained from sociologist and respected conservative thinker, Dr. Edward C. Banfield and renowned business consultant, Peter Drucker. “Let me take you back to 1970,” said Goetschel, ”there was sociologist by the name of Dr. Edward Banfield.” He was a Harvard University professor and author of Unheavenly City, published in 1970. In this book Goetschel continued, “He described a profound study and success and priority setting. What he was doing was trying to determine what it was that made certain people so successful.
“When the research began, Dr. Banfield expected to find clear links between financial independence and things like how you’re raised, education, socio-economic benefits, family contacts and other concrete things. It was really interesting because what he said the answer as to why someone people always seem to be more successful than the other people boiled down to one thing. He said that answer was what he called ‘long time perspective.’
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 It boils down to courage and persistence. – Orrin Woodward
“Building persistence,” states best-selling author, Orrin Woodward, “is where the power is in a team. Where there is unity around a course and there is persistence to follow through on that course. That is when the greatest victories in life occur.”
Woodward explains to standing-room-only crowd, “Lets talk about persistence because persistence can be painful. Everyone wants the great victories but we've got to step back enough to realize that those great victories occur through people being persistent to a cause. Let me read to you something …”
click here to listen to Orrin Woodward about Persistence in leadership
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 Billy Florence instructs, “John Maxwell’s definition of leadership is - leadership is influence. Nothing more. And nothing less.
"My father died a couple of weeks ago and I had the wonderful blessing of being able to speak at his funeral. I thought about all the wonderful things that I watched him accomplish in life. He had an incredible gift of “hard skills” like technology, architecture, engineering and finance. But what I thought about as I was talking to people when they came to the funeral home and different people came up and we talked for hours and everyone of them had a different story of how my father influenced their life.
listen to a Billy Florence leadership excerpt, click here
“They were all different ages. There were older people and younger people and everyone had a story about my dad about something that he had done in their life and they were very specific about it. As I was listening to this, I realized that my Dad was influence without a title. You see, he didn’t influence people because he was their boss It was in living his life everyday that they would tell these stories of things that he had said and done.
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