John Quotes

Disappointment is the gap that exists between expectation and reality.

Sometimes I think it's a lack of knowing the areas. Obviously, everybody knows that health is important so that's - but why was I not doing the right thing? Because I was deceived.

You realize that we over-exaggerate yesterday, we over-estimate tomorrow and we underestimate today. We think, "Well, I'm going to kill time," "I'll get back to this tomorrow."

It's better to give ideas away and contribute to another person's success than to have them lying dormant.

A great idea is simply the combination of many good ideas.

No great leader in history fought to prevent change.

we need to make a few critical decisions in major areas of life and then manage those decisions day to day.

Business schools reward complex behavior but it's the simple behavior that makes you successful in life

Successful people...focus on the rewards of success: learning from their mistakes and thinking about how they can improve themselves and their situations.

We have to pilot our own dreams - we cannot entrust them to anyone else.

Any leader who asks the right questions of the right people has the potential to discover and develop great ideas.

You will never be able to bet on yourself unless you believe in yourself.

Experiences isn't the best teacher - evaluated experience is.

Three reasons problems are inevitable; first, we live in a world of growing complexity and diversity; second, we interact with people; and third, we cannot control all the situation we face.

You can change your life if you really want to. You can improve it, make it better. And it all starts with changing the way you think.

Successful people don’t wait for everything to be perfect to move forward.

Anyone can follow a path, but only a leader can blaze one.

Motivation is like love and happiness. It's a by-product. When you're actively engaged in doing something, it sneaks up and zaps you when you least expect it.

Lasting motivation proceeds forth from the heart. People can be temporarily motivated by other people and things around them. Permanent, enduring motivation, however, can only come from within.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

Actions are remembered long after words are forgotten.

If you're always at the head of the class, then you're in the wrong class.

The harder you try to forget something, the more you think about it subconsciously.

When problems confront successful leaders, they get excited about the opportunity.

Integrity is not so much what we do as much as who we are.

Leadership ability determines a person's level of effectiveness.

Goals not only help you develop initial motivation by making your dreams obtainable, but they also help you continue to be motivated and that creates momentum.

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

A leader's ability to convey confidence and his ability to communicate effectively are similar.

A person who refuses to risk change fails to grow.

When you believe in people, you motivate them and release their potential.

It is the leaders job to add significance to the lives of the people he leads.

..Our level of influence is not the same with everyone.

Integrity is the most needed to succeed in business.

If you're going to play together as a team, you've got to care for one another. you've got to love each other.

You'll never know how close you are to a million-dollar idea unless you're willing to listen.

One way to overcome our natural self-centeredness is to try to see things from other people's perspectives.

They biggest man with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest man with the smallest mind-think big anyway.

Everybody can be somebody when somebody understands and believes in her.

The ability to understand people is a choice.

Everyone you know and all the people you meet have the potential to be someone important in the lives of others.

If you want to achieve great things, you need to have a great dream.

Like every person, every thought has the potential to become something great.

The best relationships are win-win. Why don't more people go into relationships with that attitude?

Might you be missing opportunities because you have been too quick to ask how instead of why?

We have to pick and choose between good and a little bit better.

42% of college graduates never read a book after college.

Thinking is hard; that's why so few do it.

The bottomline in leadership isn't how far we advance ourselves but how far we advance others.