If you can hire people whose passion intersects with the job, they won’t require any supervision at all. They will manage themselves better than anyone could ever manage them. Their fire comes from within, not from without. Their motivation is internal, not external.
Synergy is better than my way or your way. It’s our way.
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
Everything is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.
To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
By working only when you are most effective, life is both more productive and more enjoyable. It’s the perfect example of having your cake and eating it, too.
In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.
Success demands singleness of purpose.
I don’t necessarily have to like my players and associates but as their leader I must love them. Love is loyalty, love is teamwork, love respects the dignity of the individual. This is the strength of any organization.
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?
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
People often ask me if I know the secret of success and if I could tell others how to make their dreams come true. My answer is, you do it by working.
Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.
Part of your purpose in life is to build strong and fruitful relationships with others, and your work setting is a perfect place to start.
Leadership is not about executive position or title. It is about connection and influence. At its highest, leadership is all about adding value to the world and blessing lives through the work you do.
The quickest way to grow the sales of your business is to grow your people.
Always give your best and try to figure out how to do an even better job.
If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings.’
Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.