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
Tag Archives: Success
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
If we…
If we cannot envision the world we would like to live in, we cannot work towards its creation. If we cannot place ourselves in it in our imagination, we will not believe it is possible.
– Chellis Glendinning
Optimism…
Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional.
– Alan Cohen
The greatest leaders…
The greatest leaders build organisations that in the end, don’t need them
– Jim Collins
True leaders…
True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up
– Sheri L. Dew
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
If …
If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer.
– Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare
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