Consulting Quotes

Instead of waiting for a leader you can believe in, try this: Become a leader you can believe in.

Your company is its own competition and can deliver itself debilitating blows the competition only dreams of.

The economy is in ruins! Bottom line? Good management will defeat a bad economy.

There will be plenty of other problems in the future. This is as good a time as any to get ahead of them.

Being relevant to your customers only when you’re trying to sell something means choosing to be irrelevant to them for the rest of the time.

The first step to solving any problem is to accept one’s own accountability for creating it.

The first step out of the gate has to be knowing where you want to end up. What do you really want from your company?

You hire the best people you can possibly find. Then it's up to you to create an environment where great people decide to stay and invest their time.

Why do anything unless it is going to be great?

When you’re a manager, you work for your company. When you’re a leader, your company works for you.

It’s really simple. Sell high-value stuff to people who value high-value stuff.

The least successful athletes, those who have never won any victories, suddenly call themselves trainers.

Many people are not ready to pay for advice they can use, so the few that do, break boundaries and soar higher.

Consult your memory to know what matters most in your life.

...while extraordinary products and unique services still afford a competitive advantage, the one advantage that stands the test of time...is people.

More you know, better advice you give. Less you know, more advice you give.

If only employees knew this...there is no hand out just because you got a degree. You still gotta make $ for the biz (employer), if you choose not to make $ for yourself (freelancer / ent).

At the end of the day, if you’re wasting your time by not investing in yourself, you’re going to waste away—and that would be the greatest waste of all.

Look for the positive qualities in your client's negative behavior.

Earning is a product of learning. You're only one letter away from earning more.

It’s impossible for a company to get what it wants most if managers have to make a choice between their own values and company priorities.

A manager’s emotional commitment is worth more than their financial, intellectual and physical commitment combined.

This is your one and only precious life. Somebody’s going to decide how it’s going to be lived and that person had better be you.

What managers want most from companies they stop themselves from getting.What companies want most from managers they stop them from giving.

Most managers have plenty of emotional commitment to give to their jobs. If they can be convinced it’s safe and sensible to give it.

What companies want most from their managers is what they most stop their managers from giving. What managers want most from their jobs is what they most stop themselves from getting.

Your company really has to work for you before you’ll really work for your company.

Providing the ultimate solution to work/life balance: not escaping from work but living the way you want to at work.

Your dreams and the dreams of your company may be different, but they are in no way incompatible.

You can stuff yourself with emotional fulfillment until it’s dribbling down your chin & your ego will quickly chomp it down and demand more.

A manager’s emotional commitment is the ultimate trigger for their discretionary effort, worth more than financial, intellectual & physical commitment combined.

Try not to take this the wrong way, but your brain is smarter than you are.

In the business world, there is no gray. Either you are black, or you are white-washed.

The myth of management is that your personal values are irrelevant or inappropriate at work.

Here’s what you need to know most about leadership: Lead your own life first. The only thing in this world that will dependably happen from the top down is the digging of your grave.

Why live my personal values at work? This is an excellent question to ask. If your attorneys are planning an insanity defense.

Imagine a world where what you say synchs up, not sinks down.

Human behavior is only unpredictable and dangerous if you don’t start from humanity in the first place.

When rewards come from an external source instead of an internal source, they’re unreliable, which means they’re dangerous if you grow to depend on them.

The worst thing in your own development as a leader is not to do it wrong. It’s to do it for the wrong reasons.

True leaders live their values everywhere, not just in the workplace.

What first separates a leader from a normal human being? A leader knows who they are as a human being.

Work/life balance is not about escaping work. It’s about living exactly the way you want to when you’re at work.