To be responsible, keep your promises to others. To be successful, keep your promises to yourself.
Taking complete ownership of your outcomes by holding no one but yourself responsible for them is the most powerful thing you can do to drive your success.
The first step to dealing with a problem is admitting that you have a problem.
Do not try to excuse your faults; try to correct them.
Don’t just talk about it, do it.
No one is coming to save me; no one is coming to make life right for me; no one is coming to solve my problems. If I don’t do something, nothing is going to get better.
Implementing Extreme Ownership requires checking your ego and operating with a high degree of humility. Admitting mistakes, taking ownership, and developing a plan to overcome challenges are integral to any successful team.
Extreme Ownership. Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame.
When setting expectations, no matter what has been said or written, if substandard performance is accepted and no one is held accountable – if there are no consequences – that poor performance becomes the new standard.
The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.
Leadership is about integrity, honesty and accountability. All components of trust.
If you’re serious about changing your life, you’ll find a way. If you’re not, you’ll find an excuse.
Choices have consequences.
You’re going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don’t do. You don’t get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you’re going to take. That’s it.
You don’t get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.
You need to hear this loud and clear: No one is coming. It is up to you.
Sometimes there is no next time, no second chance, or no time out. Stop waiting. It’s now or never. When you wait, you aren’t procrastinating. You are doing something more dangerous. You are deliberately convincing yourself “now is not the time.” You are actively working against your dreams.
Winners make the effort while losers make excuses.
Show me an organization in which employees take ownership, and I will show you one that beats its competitors.
You are the only person who can make this work, and you are the only person who can mess this up.