Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Give young people a greater voice. They are the future and they are much wiser than we give them credit for.
Making a difference in your work is not about productivity; it’s about people. When you focus on others and connect with them, you can work together to accomplish great things.
Leadership is influence. It is the ability to obtain followers. When the leader lacks confidence, the followers have no commitment. A leader is great not because of his power, but because of his ability to empower others.
Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz.
Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
Democracy is not a spectator sport.
Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.
You can use social media to turn strangers into friends, friends into customers and customers into salespeople.
Everything begins with the resolve to take the first step. From that action, wisdom arises and change begins. Without action, nothing changes.
You commit yourself to such a level where there is no compromise. You give everything you have, everything, absolutely everything.
When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.
The true price of leadership is the willingness to place the needs of others above your own. Great leaders truly care about those they are privileged to lead and understand that the true cost of the leadership privilege comes at the expense of self-interest.
It’s not how many followers you have, it’s how many care. It’s not width, it’s depth. It’s not how many impressions you get, it’s how much attention you get.
The brands that can connect with client in a real way will win.
Keep saying hello to people. They will be the differentiator for you for the rest of your life.
If you’re not putting out relevant content in relevant places, you don’t exist.
Jabs are the lightweight pieces of content that benefit your customers by making them laugh, snicker, ponder, play a game, feel appreciated, or escape; right hooks are calls to action that benefit your businesses.
If you do not care about your end user immensely, especially in the next few years, your brand will die.
When you were made a leader you weren’t given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.