Where success is concerned, people are not measured in inches, or pounds, or college degrees, or family background; they are measured by the size of their thinking. —DAVID SCHWARTZ
Un fracasado es una persona que hace las cosas mal pero que no es capaz de sacar beneficio de la experiencia.. —ELBERT HUBBARD
To put significance in our stories, we must also take action. Being passive may feel safe. If you do nothing, nothing can go wrong. But while inaction cannot fail, it cannot succeed either. We can wai...
To become a 360-Degree Leader, you will have to pay a price. You will have to give up other opportunities in order to lead. You will have to sacrifice some personal goals for the sake of others. You w...
To Stay Focused in Life:You can't know everyoneYou can't do everything
The happiest people are those who have invested their time in others. The unhappiest people are those who wonder how the world is going to make them happy.
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 can perceive a lot in seven seconds. They can decide that they do not want to hear anything a speaker has to say,
Paul the Apostle exhorted, Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also...
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...
One of the most important things you can do as a leader is make sure you and your organization are delivering what you promised. The question I ask to make an assessment of this is Did we exceed expec...
Nobody is a whole team . . . We need each other. You need someone and someone needs you. Isolated islands we’re not. To make this thing called life work, we gotta lean and support. And relate and resp...
Nada es un mayor impedimento para estar en buenos términos con los demás que no sentirse tranquilo con uno mismo.
Leaders have to grow into their roles, and if the role becomes more demanding, the leader has to keep growing. Leadership is never a right. It’s a privilege and a responsibility. But it’s one that is...
John Wesley: Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can.
I’ve learned that if you want people to be impressed, you can talk about your successes; but if you want people to identify with you, it’s better to talk about your failures.