You shouldn’t focus…

You shouldn’t focus on why you can’t do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions.

– Steve Case

Life is…

Life is the leader’s laboratory, and exemplary leaders use it to conduct as many experiments as possible. Try, fail, learn. Try, fail, learn. Try, fail, learn. That’s the leader’s mantra. Leaders are learners. They learn from their failures as well as their successes, and they make it possible for others to do the same.

– James Kouzes and Barry Posner

 

If you…

If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.

– Vincent Van Gogh

Too often…

Too often we treat the symptoms and not the disease, if you take away the cause, the effect ceases.

– Miguel de Cervantes

The greatest leaders…

The greatest leaders build organisations that in the end, don’t need them

– Jim Collins

 

It’s…

It is never too late to be who you might have been.

–  George Eliot

It is…

It is absolutely necessary for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.

– George Washington

Success…

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

– Winston Churchill

Every man…

Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

– Charles De Gaulle

Most of the…

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

– Dale Carnegie