David Cottrell Quotes

Whether you realize it or not, you have the power to be successful.

Change allows us to exit the comfortable and enter the improved.

Doing the right thing isn't always easy - in fact, sometimes it's real hard - but just remember that doing the right thing is always right.

Don't be so busy making a living that you forget how to live. Work hard to be successful, but enjoy the journey.

To fulfill you potential, you need to move out of your comfort zone and into the legacy zone.

Our comfort zones can be our greatest enemy to our potential.

Successful people keep moving, even when they are discouraged and have made mistakes.

When you accepted your job, you were not chosen solely to fill a position on the organization chart; you were chosen to fill a responsibility.

Your team has entrusted a portion of their life to you, and it's your job to help them grow, personally and professionally.

The single greatest demotivator of a team is having members who are not carrying their load.

The worst type of employee you can have is one who has mentally quit and is still physically coming to work every day.

Guard your integrity as if it's your most precious leadership possession, because that is what it is.

Enthusiasm is something you can't fake, and it has a tremendous effect on everyone around you.

To become a courageous leader, you must realize that accepting responsibility is not optional - it's mandatory.

There is a direct correlation between the books you read and the success you achieve.

Press on. Your defining moment may arrive just when you feel surrounded by adversity.

There is no 'grand conspiracy' preventing your from accomplishing what you need to do.

The most important thing you do as a leader is to hire the right people.

I have found success is ultimately realized by people who make more right choices . . . and recover quickly from their bad choices.

One of the major sources of stress, anxiety, and unhappiness comes from feeling as if your life is out of control.

The success of any change depends, in large measure, on your attitude about that change.

If you want to be around people who are positive and enthusiastic and eager to live life, your attitude has to be the same.

Don't stifle your career by limiting you knowledge.

Until you accept total responsibility - no matter what - you won't be able to put plans in place to accomplish your goals.

So much of life is about attitude and how we handle what life throws our way. Life is good - even when a situation appears to be the worst.

When you write things down, you commit to doing them. If you simply tell me what you want to do, there is really no commitment to getting it done.

If your focus is always changing, expect confusion to be rampant on your team.

When you depend on another's perceptions to match your expectations, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.

Take the time and energy to manage your boss the same way you manage your team.

You are the chief bucket filler, and the best way to fill buckets is with excellent communication.

The truth is that problems won't just go away.

Bucket filling is in the eye of the bucket holder, not the bucket filler. Fill their buckets with things that are important to them ... not you.

Even though your responsibilities increase when you become a manager, you lose some of the rights or freedoms you may have enjoyed in the past.

If you want to make better use of your time, you need to be looking for the small increments of time ... a minute here, five minutes there, etc.

Leaders who have integrity possess one of the most respected virtues in all of life.

Everything you do matters because your team is watching ... and depending on you to do the right thing.

It is rare for people to say they want to be held accountable, but in reality, everyone wants everyone else to be held accountable.

Coaching sets the pace to get the best out of others while giving the best of yourself.

Frequently, the difference between success and failure is the resolve to stick to your plan long enough to win.

Never lower your standards just to fill a position. You will pay for it later.

We all need people who will help us look at situations from a different perspective.

When it comes to leading people, there is no problem that is unique to you.

You can help determine your team's enthusiasm for the change by focusing on the entrance of potential while you are working through the exit of the past.

What you see in the interview will not get significantly better when the individual is hired.

Every successful person has faced, attacked, and conquered adversity somewhere along the way.

For you to be successful and provide your employees with the necessary tools for success, you and your boss must work together - no matter what.

"To coach" comes from the root meaning "to bring a person from where they are to where they want to be."

There are a few things that you can do that will yield better results than doing a whole lot of other things.

A real leader spends his time fixing the problem instead of finding who to blame.

People quit people before they quit companies.