The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping.
— Dale Carnegie
FIND a WAY to WIN at something EVERY DAY
It doesn’t have to be big. Some of the best days are made up of one or more small victories. Those incremental wins add up to meaningful change over time.
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.
— Michael Jordan
Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.
— Stephen Covey
Leadership has got nothing to do with figuring it out and everything to do with feeling it out. It is an awareness, and for so long in my businesses, I, too, was not aware. Leaders aren't born; they evolve. To evolve, you must first be self-aware.
— Troy Hazard
If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the oganization gets pulled up with you.
— Indra Nooyi
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back.
— Maya Angelou
Believe in your own worth first. In the job search journey, if you don't believe you are hirable, you likely won't be hired.
— Nadia Ibrahim-Taney
Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it.
— H. James Harrington
You’ll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
— Irish Proverb
The manager is either an engagement-creating coach or an engagement-destroying boss, but both relationships affect employee behavior.
— Ken Royal
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
— Freya Stark
A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.
— Robert J. McKain
Leaps of greatness require the combined problem-solving ability of people who trust each other.
— Simon Sinek
It's teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage. Both because it's so powerful and so rare.
— Patrick Lencioni
Managers can achieve compliance from their employees, which is merely getting people to do what they’re supposed to do. But when managers lead their people to truly commit to their work, employees do MORE because they want to.
— Dawn Motsiff
A meaningful life isn’t found, but created through our actions.
— Steve Bloom
Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
— Peter Drucker
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
— Nelson Mandela
The journey of success ends when we stop learning new things, because learning is oxygen—it keeps us going, even when it’s uncomfortable or painful, and it strengthens us for the challenges and opportunities that come as we pursue our fight.
— Steve White
I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talends. A good leaders will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.
— Ben Carson
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
— John Wooden
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
— Spencer Johnson
You don’t become what you want, you become what you believe
— Oprah Winfrey
I realized I was more convincing to myself and the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.
— Ursula Burns
Let’s not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It’s important to be decisive – after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what’s at stake.
— Bill Blackman
Focus on doing the right things instead of a bunch of things.
— Mike Krieger
You have to be authentic, you have to be true, and you have to believe in your heart.
— Howard Schultz
When a job starts to feel like a job, you should evaluate whether or not you feel you’re aligned with your purpose in life. Not having alignment with your purpose affects who you are as a person and a professional.
— Shannon Cook
If business can become more intentional about decency, I believe it can become a healing force our world so badly needs.
— Bill Boulding
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
— Maya Angelou
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through the argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.
— Colin Powell
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