When I look at how the good-to-great CEOs became CEO, they did it by not focusing on their career. They focused on their unit of responsibility.
— Jim Collins
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.
Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.
— Steve Jobs
One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
— Maya Angelou
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
— Napoleon Hill
Real leadership and growth emerge from our willingness to ask for help and give it. None of us gets very far alone.
— Laysha Ward
You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
— Ken Kesey
Some goals are not going to fulfill you. Choose goals that you value and care about.
— Henry Cloud
A boss has the title, a leader has the people.
— Simon Sinek
Learn to be thankful for what you already have, while you pursue all that you want.
— Jim Rohn
I learned that things are never as complicated as we imagine them to be. It is only our arrogance which seeks to find complicated answers to simple problems.
— Muhammad Yunus
Whatever you are, be a good one.
— William Thackeray
Leadership and learning are indispensible to eachother
— John F. Kennedy
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
— Napoleon Hill
Sometimes the bravest and most important thing you can do is just show up.
— Brené Brown
Before you say you can't do something, try it.
— Sakichi Toyoda
Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
— Joshua J. Marine
The things we fear most in organizations--fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances--are the primary sources of creativity.
— Margaret Wheatley
Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality.
— Dee Hock
Get busy living or get busy dying.
— Morgan Freeman as "Red" in The Shawshank Redemption
Great leaders never stop clarifying expectations, and they never stop mentoring.
— Eric Chester
Dreams don't come true just because you dream them. It's hard work that makes things happen. It's hard work that creates change.
— Shonda Rhimes
A leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.
— Nelson Mandela
Promote what you love instead of bashing what you hate.
— Ed Latimore
Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
— Jack Welch
Well done is better than well said.
— Benjamin Franklin
Success is making the people who believed in you look brilliant.
— Dharmesh Shah
None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.
— Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
— John Wooden
Exemplary leaders know that if they want to gain commitment and achieve the highest standards, they must be models of the behavior they expect of others.
— James Kouzes
Ignore those who tell you which way to go without first understanding where you are.
— James Pierce
Yes that happened, but it doesn't define me. What does not kill me will only make me stronger. I made a mistake, but I am not a mistake.
— John Hope Bryant
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