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.
It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Manage the cause, not the result.
— W.E. Deming
There is no invesment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.
— Orison Swett Marden
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
— Mark Twain
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
— Dale Carnegie
The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.
— Paulo Coelho
We all have activities or situations that we avoid because we’re afraid or feel uncomfortable. Those are the ones we need to tackle first and with gusto. Embrace discomfort and you will triumph with confidence.
— Corinn Price
Bravery is not a quality of the body. It is of the soul.
— Mahatma Gandhi
It's not about you; it's about the influence you have on others.
— Walt Rakowich
There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.
— Susan Cain
Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.
— Kim Collins
A person who wants to lead the orchestra must turn their back on the crowd.
— Max Lucado
We have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally.
— Susan Cain
Don’t ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
— Anonymous
Sooner or later, your work speaks for itself. Outlasting the critics feels like it will take a very long time, but you're more patient than they are.
— Seth Godin
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
— Nelson Mandela
We measure success by the way we touch the lives of people.
— Bob Chapman
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
— Barack Obama
A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
— Helmut Schmidt
Create an environment where every employee can bring their whole self to work and not just make a living but also have a life.
— Indra Nooyi
Go into every relationship, whether business or personal, with your eyes open and willing to see people for who they are, not who others say they are. Form your own opinions...I truly believe this has helped me work with all different types of people.
— Kathi Farinacci
When it comes to life, the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or you take them with gratitude.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
— Phil Jackson
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody.
— Herbert Swope
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.
— Greek Proverb
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
— Vincent Van Gogh
There are only two options regarding commitment. You’re either in or you’re out. There’s no such thing as life in-between.
— Pat Riley
Diversity by itself doesn’t mean a lot until you change your culture. Until every employee feels as though they can bring their true selves to their job, you’re not unlocking the potential of your workforce.
— Jide Zeitlin
Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work
— Vince Lombardi
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