First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win
– Mohandas Gandhi
Tag Archives: Success
The essence…
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.
– Michael E. Porter
The country…
The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players
– Don Coryell
You can’t connect…
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
– Steve Jobs
How do you…
How do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other way and when your people are visibly growing individually and as a group.
– Sir John Harvey-Jones
Success is…
Success is…knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential and sowing seeds that benefit others.
– John Maxwell
My grandfather…
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group. There is much less competition.
– Indira Gandhi
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 & Barry Posner
Rooting….
Rooting for other people’s failure does get in the way of your success
– Amy Poehler
Give a man…
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
– Maimonides
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