Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
— Ralph Marston
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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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
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.
— Amelia Earheart
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
My first boss told me to look for ways that all parties can win. Try never to leave an exchange where someone feels taken advantage of or devalued.
— Amy Fox
The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.
— Ken Blanchard
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.
— Dee Hock
What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
— Wayne Dyer
A good plan now is better than a great plan too late.
— Verne Harnish
The hardest person you will ever have to lead is yourself.
— Bill George
None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.
— Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
There is no invesment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.
— Orison Swett Marden
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
If you want to be average, focus on the performance. If you want to be the best, focus on making practice harder than performance.
— Shane Parrish
Never wish life were easier. Wish that you were better.
— Jim Rohn
I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.
— Elon Musk
Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making any dream come true. "I can’t" often means "I won’t." You can change "I won’t" to "I will" with willpower.
— Marcia Wieder
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