Get the big view of your job. Think, really think your present job is important. That next promotion depends mostly on how you think toward your present job.
Get the action habit – you do not need to wait until conditions are perfect.
Success shuns the man who lacks ideas.
Those who believe they can move mountains, do. Those who believe they can’t, cannot. Belief triggers the power to do.
How much we can do depends on how much we think we can do. When you really believe you can do more, your mind thinks creatively and shows you the way.
Most of us make two basic errors with respect to intelligence: 1. We underestimate our own brainpower. 2. We overestimate the other fellow’s brainpower.
The point is clear. People who get things done in this world don’t wait for the spirit to move them; they move the spirit.
The point is this: Big thinkers are specialists in creating positive, forward-looking, optimistic pictures in their own minds and in the minds of others. To think big, we must use words and phrases that produce big, positive mental images.
Treating someone as second-class never gets you first-class results.
This is a fact of paramount significance: Each human being, whether he lives in India or Indianapolis, whether he’s ignorant or brilliant, civilized or uncivilized, young or old, has this desire: He wants to feel important.
Take the initiative in building friendships – leaders always do. It’s easy and natural for us to tell ourselves, “Let him make the first move.” “Let them call us.” “Let her speak first.
Put these two thoughts deep in your mind. First, give your ideas value by acting on them.
Nothing – absolutely nothing – in this life gives you more satisfaction than knowing you’re on the road to success and achievement. And nothing stands as a bigger challenge than making the most of yourself.
Remember, the main job of the leader is thinking. And the best preparation for leadership is thinking.
You win when you refuse to fight petty people. Fighting little people reduces you to their size.
Meet problems and obstacles as they arise. The test of a successful person is not the ability to eliminate all problems before he takes action, but rather the ability to find solutions to difficulties when he encounters them.
Practice calling people by their names. Every year shrewd manufacturers sell more briefcases, pencils, Bibles, and hundreds of other items just by putting the buyer’s name on the product. People like to be called by name. It gives everyone a boost to be addressed by name.
If employees are doing something wrong or are making a mistake, I am doubly careful not to hurt their feelings and make them feel small or embarrassed. I just use four simple steps: “First, I talk to them privately. “Second, I praise them for what they are doing well. “Third, I point out the one thing at the moment that they could do better and I help them find the way. “Fourth, I praise them again on their good points.
Be an experimental person. Break up fixed routines. Expose yourself to new restaurants, new books, new theaters, new friends; take a different route to work someday, take a different vacation this year, do something new and different this weekend.
Go out of your way to meet people. And don’t be timid. Don’t be afraid to be unusual. Find out who the other person is, and be sure he knows who you are.