A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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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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
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
— Wayne Dyer
Unless you have definite, precise, clearly set goals, you are not going to realize the maximum potential that lies within you.
— Zig Ziglar
If you think dealing with issues like worthiness and authenticity and vulnerability are not worthwhile because there are more pressing issues, like the bottom line or attendance or standardized test scores, you are sadly, sadly mistaken.
— Brené Brown
Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
— Nelson Mandela
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
I never lose. I either win or learn.
— Nelson Mandela
Arriving at one goal is the starting point of another.
— John Dewey
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
We are at a point where CEOs recognize they just can't be for their shareholders. They have to be for all their stakeholders, whether it's for their schools, environment or equality for every human being.
— Marc Benioff
Stay close to the people who are doing the real work in your organization.
— Rick Gibbs
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
— Theodore H. White
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