To Stay Focused in Life:You can't know everyoneYou can't do everything
The book you don’t read can’t help you; the seminar you won’t attend can’t change your life. The business gets better when you get better. Never wish it were easier, wish you were better.
The Cost and Expectation of Leadership Leviticus 7:33–35 Aaron, like many leaders throughout history, received a divine calling. God chose Aaron and his sons to serve as Israel’s priests and charged t...
Successful people focus their thinking on progress
Recently I took my daughter Elizabeth out to a restaurant for lunch. The waitress, whose job it was to take care of people, made us feel that we were really inconveniencing her. She was grumpy, negati...
Recently I had breakfast with Dan Cathy, the president of Chick-fil-A, a fast food chain headquartered in the Atlanta area. I told him that I was working on this book and I asked him if he made thinki...
Real leaders have something to give, and they give it freely. Anthony DeMello saw a starving child shivering in the cold. Angrily he lifted his eyes to heaven and said, God, how could you allow such s...
President Abraham Lincoln once remarked, Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. Few people have more power than an American president. Being the...
Philanthropist Andrew Carnegie declared, It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone. To do something really...
People tend to become what the most important people in their lives think they will become.
People don’t expect their leaders to be perfect, but they do expect them to be honest. If
People can perceive a lot in seven seconds. They can decide that they do not want to hear anything a speaker has to say,
Pastor and radio broadcaster Tony Evans says, If you want a better world, composed of better nations, inhabited by better states, filled with better counties, made up of better cities, comprised of be...
Para mucha gente en este mundo, lo que marca la diferencia nunca marcará la diferencia. ¿Por qué? Porque han escogido una actitud que no es una osesión valiosa para ellos. Si alguien no está escogiend...
POINT OUT A GREAT STRENGTH OF SOMEONE IN YOUR LIFE TODAY.
One of the ways Coach Wooden used to do that was to ask his players to acknowledge the skills and contributions of others. He told each player that if a teammate made a great pass or set a pick that a...
One of the quickest ways to gain credibility with an individual, a group, or an audience is to borrow it from someone who already has credibility with them.
One of the greatest problems people have with failure is that they are too quick to judge isolated situations in their lives and label them as failures. Instead, they need to keep the bigger picture i...
Novelist Victor Hugo believed, He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows out that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life . . . B...
No one can understand that mysterious thing we call influence . . . yet . . . everyone of us continually exerts influence, either to heal, to bless, to leave marks of beauty; or to wound, to hurt, to...