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
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.
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
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
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