There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
— Freya Stark
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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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
You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
— Sammy Davis Jr.
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
We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.
— Dr. Henry Link
Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it.
— H. James Harrington
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
What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving 110% all the time.
— Don Zimmer
You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
— Ken Kesey
We measure success by the way we touch the lives of people.
— Bob Chapman
An uncompromising life is one where you stay true to what is important to you, what you believe in and what you love.
— Steve A. White
You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.
— Brené Brown
I believe each of us stands to gain far more if we shift our emphasis from what we get out of others to how we can make emotional deposits into others' lives.
— Ross Woodstock
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
— Barack Obama
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 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
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