Achievable goals are the first step to self-improvement. Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world…if you do so, you are insulting yourself.
— Bill Gates
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 seek to lead, invest at least 50 percent of your time leading yourself--your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, and conduct.
— Dee Hock
Leaders don't inflict pain, they share pain
— Max De Pree
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
— Peter Drucker
It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.
— Mahatma Gandhi
This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don’t wait.
— Natalie Goldberg
Leadership is only a means, to what end is the real question.
— Peter Drucker
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
— Jackie Robinson
It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
— Roy Disney
Authenticity is about being true to who you are, even when everyone around you wants you to be someone else.
— Michael Jordan
Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can--there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.
— Sarah Caldwell
The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It’s this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an innovation company.
— Ginny Rometty
When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.
— Oprah Winfrey
I have not failed, I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
— Thomas Alva Edison
The things we fear most in organizations--fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances--are the primary sources of creativity.
— Margaret Wheatley
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
— Nelson Mandela
The person seeking to learn wins what the person seeking to impress loses.
— Angela Jiang
You don't hire for skills, you hire for attitude.
— Simon Sinek
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
— Zig Ziglar
The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
— Benjamin Mays
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
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