If you focus on goals, you may hit goals – but that doesn’t guarantee growth. If you focus on growth, you will grow and always hit goals.
Your life expands in proportion to your courage. Fear limits a leader.
Failure is not fatal. Only failure to get back up is.
Problems almost always create opportunities – to learn, grow and improve.
Inexperienced leaders are quick to lead before knowing anything about the people they intend to lead. But mature leaders listen, learn and then lead.
Needless to say, you can love people without leading them, but you cannot lead people without loving them.
The first order of things to be changed is me, the leader. After I consider how hard it is to change myself, then I will understand the challenge of trying to change others. This is the ultimate test of leadership.
Nobody can motivate himself in a positive direction by continually using negative words.
Leaders have two characteristics: first they are going somewhere, and second they are able to persuade other people to go with them.
Attitude: It is our best friend or our worst enemy.
Those closest to me will determine the level of my success.
It’s lonely at the top, so you better know why you are there.
If you can raise up leaders, you will always have followers, but if you can’t raise up leaders, you will only have followers.
A leader who develops people adds; a leader who develops leaders multiplies.
We are either the masters or victims of our attitudes. It is a matter of personal choice. Who we are today is the result of choices we made yesterday. Tomorrow, we will become what we choose today. To change means to choose change.
Successful people do what is right no matter how they feel, and by doing right, they feel good.
Find something you like to do so much that you would gladly do it for nothing; then learn to do it so well that people are happy to pay you for it.
The Visalus Founders are the finest and sharpest young leaders that I have ever met.
You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.
Effective leaders don’t gather things just for themselves; they do it in order to give to others.