Authentic leaders are real and genuine. They acknowledge their shortcomings and admit their errors, which enables them to connect with others and inspire teammates.
— Bill George
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.
Leaders must have vision, creativity, and the ability to influence others to follow and support them into uncharted and often risky territory.
— Nick Venturella
Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.
— Ralph Marston
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
One hundred percent of the shots you don’t take don’t go in.
— Wayne Gretzky
Focusing on the future sets leaders apart. You have to be forward looking; it's the quality that most differentiates leaders from individual contributors.
— Barry Z. Posner and James M. Kouzes
Strategy is a commodity and execution is an art.
— Peter Drucker
A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
— Arnold Glasow
Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, it’s understanding the necessity of both; it’s engaging. It’s being all in.
— Brené Brown
The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
— George Orwell
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal — a commitment to excellence — that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
— Mario Andretti
Don’t say it cannot be done, rather say, you don't know how to do it yet.
— Tomas Bata
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
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than one's fear.
— James Neil Hollingworth
No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.
— Reid Hoffman
If you do what’s right for the individual, you’ll have done what’s right for the company. A well-seasoned VP told me that many years ago when we were considering making some "non-traditional" organizational changes. I’ve always remembered it.
— Ramona Bilgram
Recognition is the most powerful currency you have, and it costs you nothing.
— James Kouzes
Every responsibility you get, make it a pocket of greatness. If you do that, you are more likely to die of indigestion from too much responsibility than starvation from too little.
— Jim Collins
The three most significant days in your life are: 1) The day you were born. 2) The day you find out why. 3) The day you discover how to contribute the gift you were born to give.
— Taylor Hartman
You have to be odd to be number one.
— Theodor Seuss Geisel
Leadership is an affair of the heart. Leaders love what they're doing and those they lead. Leaders make others feel great themselves and are gracious in showing their appreciation.
— Barry Z. Posner and James M. Kouzes
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do.
— Johanne Wolfgang Von Goethe
Through hard work and perseverance and obviously a few breaks and a few hand-ups — not handouts but hand-ups, which represent opportunity — I think the American dream is available to everyone.
— Steve White
Be spectacularly great at what you do. Wear your passion on your sleeve and hold your heart in the palm of your hand. And work hard. Really hard.
— Robin Sharma
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
— Marianne Williamson
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
— Albert Einstein
Most people, even those who find a calling early in life and never veer from it, have twists and turns in their road to success. It might look like they followed a straight line, but if you look more closely, you’ll see it was is actually crooked.
— Steve White
Our fight is what brings virtue, energy, and direction to your purpose for going through life. It’s what gives meaning to your why.
— Steve White
There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in doing something, you do it only when it’s convenient. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses – only results.
— Ken Blanchard
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
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