If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
Even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15% of one’s financial success is due one’s technical knowledge and about 85% is due to skill in human engineering, to personality and the ability to lead people.
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.
Good thinkers are always in demand. A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss.
Delegate – work smarter not harder; do what you do best and drop the rest; get control of your calendar; do what you love because it will give you energy; work with people you like so your energy isn’t depleted.
Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
If your business is to grow and prosper, as a leader, you need to focus on people development.
An entrepreneur isn’t someone who owns a business, it’s someone who makes things happen.
Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it – his mind, his body, his heart – what’s life worth to him?
There is no substitute for hard work. Always be humble and hungry.
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
Never follow your dreams. Follow your effort. It’s not about what you can dream of. That’s easy. It’s about whether or not it’s important enough to you to do the work to be ready to be successful in that business.
I believe in two principles: Your attitude is more important than your capabilities. Similarly, your decision is more important than your capabilities!
Women helping each other – coaching, mentoring, and providing tips – is a great way for us to be our own force.
Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.
Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.
If you want to become successful, seek to become a person of value.
Hard work and diligence are essential to success, but they require an internal motivation. That internal motivation is Vision.
When a manager openly expresses his faith in an employee’s skill, he doesn’t just improve mood and motivation; he actually improves their likelihood of succeeding.
Baby steps count, as long as you are going forward. You add them all up, and one day you look back and you’ll be surprised at where you might get to.