… we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world, is and remains immortal.
– Albert Pine
Tag Archives: Attitude
The price…
of excellence is discipline; the cost of mediocrity is disappointment
– William A. Ward
True leaders…
… are the first to admit that they don’t know everything and that they need help
– Bill Byrd
Leadership…
….. isn’t about power for the sake of power – not true leadership. Instead it deals with modeling behavior you want others to have, and with responsibility for being certain the people you lead are treated equitably, and with respect. Not an easy task. You can’t make other people feel anything, or think anything; you can only try to teach them what you want them to feel and think and why you think they should act accordingly
– Laura Weakley
In the…
… simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up and goes.”
– John Erskine
To excel…
… means to reach beyond the best you have ever given because doing so matters to you personally, for its own sake. It means to run your own race—as an individual, team, or organization. To excel is to know your greatest strengths and passions, and to emphasize them while honestly admitting and managing your weaknesses.
– Robert Cooper
There is…
… nothing like a concrete life plan to weigh you down. Because if you always have one eye on some future goal, you stop paying attention the the job at hand, miss opportunities that might arise, and stay fixedly on one path, even when a better, newer course might have opened up.
– Indra Nooyi
If…
… you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Tact…
…. is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt
– Orlando Battista
Don’t be….
…afraid to fail…. be afraid not to try
– Anon
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