Self Improvement Quotes
Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life living at a level most people can't.
If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?
Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it.
Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.
Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.
Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead.
Mark my words. Perception is reality and how someone perceives you is their reality.
Perception number one, how you want people to think about you when you arrive and perception number two, how you want them to talk about you once you have left.
In short, the difference between you and your doctor is that he has a well-designed reputation and you do not.
Young man, your problem and the reason so many like you fail, is simply because you allow yourself to give up far too early.
Fascinatingly resilient the tenacity of a child. Not yet conditioned by society to give up when instructed to do so.
And so it must be with the energy you muster for your own work. Get out there and convert the unconverted. Save them all from the charlatans and the nearly-men.
It has nothing to do with the time being right or wrong. Storms just happen.
You can’t plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Either you get out there and plough it or it doesn’t get done.
There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it happen.
You see continuous movement is the important thing here. Those who remain in one position and then lie to themselves about their progress are the ones in real trouble.
Currently, you are approaching each opportunity with a single possible outcome and when that doesn't happen you fool yourself that there was nothing more that you could have done.
The future is a fabulous place to bury your success.
Just about ANY personality trait or skill can be learned: simply find it in someone you know and copy it. Then watch what happens.
Don't allow your imagination to colour events as lesser men would, and see movement in motionless things.
Until you take the first step forward, failure remains reassuringly impossible.
You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams.
I will ask questions that are so wide and open they will feel the need to speak for a week. Then from the information that they give to me, I will mould solutions designed specifically for them.
There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs.
Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?
It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.
If you wish to sell to anyone you must earn the right to do so.
Why do so many salespeople talk to customers about the product and not the result?
But without a need, even the finest piece of beef is merely a piece of dead bull is it not?
We must accept the reality that the causes of impatience travel a two-way street.
If you don't eat right and you don't know how to take care of your body, you're not going to have the energy to do anything wonderful.
I confess my own leisure to be spent entirely in search of adventure, without regard to prudence, profit, self improvement, learning, or any other serious thing.
We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.
If you want to grow a muscle, you must lift something out of your comfort zone. Push beyond what is comfortable, if you don't there will be no growth.