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.
Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work
— Vince Lombardi
Over a decade of experience as a clinical psychologist and leadership consultant has taught me that burnout prevention requires reducing workplace stress while increasing employee engagement.
— Natalia Peart
Passion for a job doesn’t fuel an employee’s initiative; initiative fuels passion.
— Eric Chester
Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It's about one life influencing another.
— John C. Maxwell
The greatest enemy of learning is knowing.
— John Maxwell
Success is best when it's shared.
— Howard Schultz
The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
— John D. Rockefeller
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
— Albert Schweitzer
To add value to others, one must first value others
— John Maxwell
The message of the kaizen strategy is that not a day should go by without some kind of improvement being made somewhere in the company.
— Masaaki Imai
You can accomplish anything if you can prioritize ruthlessly and control your attention. Both of these have become particularly hard in the present age. As such those who can control these two critical factors will rule the world.
— The Ancient Stage
Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.
— Mary Kay Ash
Employees who believe that management is concerned about them as a whole person, not just an employee, are more productive, more satisfied, more fulfilled.
— Anne Mulcahy
Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.
— Oprah Winfrey
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
— William Arthur Ward
Don’t listen to the person who has the answers; listen to the person who has the questions.
— Albert Einstein
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
— Jackie Robinson
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
— Aristotle
If you have the instinct to serve and the skills to succeed ... don’t separate these skills, integrate them. The future will be written by those who integrate their whole being.
— Robert F. Smith
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable.
— Denis Watley
The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
— Benjamin Mays
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
Always be a first-rate version of yourself and not a second-rate version of someone else.
— Judy Garland
Never stop interviewing. The practice of interviewing helps you remain instantaneously marketable in any economy, even if you're not on the market.
— Mark Anthony Dyson
Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
— Ralph Marston
People tend to trust you when they think they're interacting with the real you, when they have faith in your judgment and competence, and when they believe you care about them.
— Frances Frei and Anne Morriss
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage — pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically — to say ‘no’ to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger ‘YES’ burning inside.
— Stephen Covey
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
— Albert Einstein
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
— Robert Cialdini
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