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
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.
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The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.
— Robert Anthony
The best leaders are the best learners. Learning is the master skill of leadership. Leaders are constant improvements fanatics.
— Barry Z. Posner and James M. Kouzes
If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.
— Stephen Covey
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
— Zig Ziglar
A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
— Arnold Glasow
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
— Marianne Williamson
Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.
— Tom Peters
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
We don't need giant personalities to transform companies. We need leaders who build not their own egos but the institutions they run.
— Susan Cain
Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk.
— Jane Kenyon
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
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
Real leadership and growth emerge from our willingness to ask for help and give it. None of us gets very far alone.
— Laysha Ward
Effective leaders understand they are responsible for everyone they are leading and consider that responsibility as their main concern. If you ever lose empathy for and dedication to the people you are leading, you are not being a leader.
— Michael Talve
Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
— Jack Welch
Sometimes the only way to change people is to change the people.
— Ted Weinberger
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
— Mark Twain
There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.
— Susan Cain
You don't have to choose between doing good and doing well.
— Tim Cook
Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.
— Will Rogers
Anyone who takes a leap of faith and moves abroad to continue education or work rarely regrets it. For me, global work experience and travel are key contributors to business and personal fulfillment.
— Amanda Bradford
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
— Jack Welch
If your actions inspired others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
— Simon Sinek
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
— John Buchan
People put out statements, they put out platitudes, they say something is terrible. The fundamential question is, do we do more than we're required?
— Kenneth Frazier
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
Being defeated is often temporary, giving up makes it permanent.
— Marilyn von Savant
Manage the cause, not the result.
— W.E. Deming
To add value to others, one must first value others
— John Maxwell
The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you.
— Indra Nooyi
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