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.
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
It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life; it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power.
— Robert T. Kiyosaki
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
— Jim Rohn
A relentless barrage of “why’s” is the best way to prepare your mind to pierce the clouded veil of thinking caused by the status quo. Use it often.
— Shigeo Shingo
I don't want to overemphasize this, but not a day goes by when I don't think about my mother and what she would think about what I just did. I often adjust my approach.
— Ursula Burns
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
— Anonymous
Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.
— Vince Lombardi
The beginning is the half of every action.
— Greek Proverb
It's not the strongest or the most intelligent who survive, but those most adaptive to change.
— Kenneth I. Chenault
If you want to be average, focus on the performance. If you want to be the best, focus on making practice harder than performance.
— Shane Parrish
Never wish life were easier. Wish that you were better.
— Jim Rohn
I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.
— Elon Musk
Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making any dream come true. "I can’t" often means "I won’t." You can change "I won’t" to "I will" with willpower.
— Marcia Wieder
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
— Wayne Dyer
Unless you have definite, precise, clearly set goals, you are not going to realize the maximum potential that lies within you.
— Zig Ziglar
If you think dealing with issues like worthiness and authenticity and vulnerability are not worthwhile because there are more pressing issues, like the bottom line or attendance or standardized test scores, you are sadly, sadly mistaken.
— Brené Brown
Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
— Nelson Mandela
The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It’s this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an innovation company.
— Ginny Rometty
I never lose. I either win or learn.
— Nelson Mandela
Arriving at one goal is the starting point of another.
— John Dewey
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
We are at a point where CEOs recognize they just can't be for their shareholders. They have to be for all their stakeholders, whether it's for their schools, environment or equality for every human being.
— Marc Benioff
Stay close to the people who are doing the real work in your organization.
— Rick Gibbs
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
— Theodore H. White
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
— Antoine de Saint Exupery
The reason most goals aren’t achieved is not lack of resources or time, but lack of prioritization. We spend our time doing second things first. Learn to prioritize and you’ll find yourself crushing your goals.
— Preethi Kasireddy
If you don’t ask the right questions, you don’t get the right answers. A question asked the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the ABC of diagnosis.
— Edward Hodnett
I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
— Michael Jordan
Everything you ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
— George Addair
It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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