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“Your performance today must come from a deeper place. No matter how hard, no matter how tough—you are expected to make a difference. Today are you ready, today are you at your best? So much depends on what you do today.” Bronco Mendenhall
“The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.” Rick Pitino
“In global competition the only defense is a vigorous offense.” Hamel & Prahalad, Competing for the Future
“The worst thing I can do is to not ask enough of my team.” Bronco Mendenhall
“Hard work is not always fun, but it’s the price you must pay to be more successful.” Rick Pitino
“If you are not getting better you are almost certainly getting worse.” Rick Pitino
“You have to be your own toughest competitor.” Andy Groves
“You must deserve victory to feel good about yourself.” Rick Pitino
“People just don’t get interested in a game if there’s no scoreboard.” Hamel & Prahalad, Competing for the Future
“Passion is fire in the belly. It is the fuel that drives our engine and enables us to perform at levels we never thought we could.” Unknown
“If nothing and no one are demanding superior performance from you, demand it of yourself.” Rick Pitino
“Triumph is always nearest when defeat seems inescapable.” BC Forbes
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” Margaret Thatcher
“Courage is being willing to fight for a cause even when sure of losing. Look deeply at life and you will find that there are many victories worse than defeat.” Robert K. Cooper
“That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only which gives everything its value.” Thomas Paine
“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better start running faster than the other.” African Proverb
“One doesn’t get to the future first by letting someone else blaze the trail.” Hamel & Prahalad, Competing for the Future
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“Destiny is not a matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” William Jennings Bryan
“Our fate is shaped from within ourselves outward, never from without inward.” Jacques Lusseyran
“You can run from your dreams in fear or you can run to your dreams with faith.” Tina Downey
“Even if your on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.” Will Rogers
“Have the discipline to listen to your heart, and then have the courage to follow.” Ron Polack
“Unless you change who you are, you will always have what you’ve got. We can have more than we’ve got because we can become more than we are.” Jim Rohn
“Lacking a compelling sense of direction, few employees feel a compelling sense of responsibility for competitiveness. Most people won’t go that extra mile unless they know where they are heading.” Hamel & Prahalad, Competing for the Future
“As human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.” Stephen R. Covey
“Most people live in a very restricted circle of their potential being. We all have reservoirs of energy and genius to draw upon of which we do not dream.” William James
“It is not the cards you are dealt but what you do with them that counts.” Randy Pausch
“Nothing is more liberating than becoming the author of one’s own destiny.” Hamel & Prahalad, Competing for the Future
“Your ordinary may be extraordinary to someone else. Never underestimate the difference you make.” Don McKenna
“We must be the change we want to see in the world.” Mahatma Gandhi
“It is important to remember that we all have magic inside us.” J.K. Rowling
“Starting resource positions are a very poor predictor of future industry leadership.” Hamel & Prahalad, Competing for the Future
“The greatest motivational act one person can do for another is to listen.” Roy E. Moody
“Anyone running a small company should be enormously encouraged by the fact that there are so many examples of companies that overcame seemingly insuperable resource handicaps and built positions of global leadership.” Hamel & Prahalad, Competing for the Future
“Only extraordinary goals provoke extraordinary efforts.” Hamel & Prahalad, Competing for the Future
“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing—that’s why we recommend it daily.” Zig Ziglar
“You always can do more than you think you can do.” Rick Pitino
“Not all dreams need to be reachable; they just have to fuel your fire, and provide direction and drive.” Unknown
“What often determines our happiness in life is the step we take after a setback.” John Izzo
“Goals. There’s no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There’s no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There’s no telling what will happen when you act upon them.” Jim Rohn
“Whatever good things we build end up building us.” Jim Rohn
“The only thing that stands between a person and what they want in life is the will to try it and the faith to believe it possible.” 212 Degrees
“We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality.” Vaclav Havel
“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. “ Henry David Thoreau
“Little plans have no power to stir your blood.” Robert K. Cooper
“Even when big dreams don’t come true—they almost always change us for the better.” Robert K. Cooper
“We were born to make a difference, not just a living.” Robert K. Cooper
“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal. Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude.” Thomas Jefferson
“We all need lots of powerful long-range goals to help us past the short-term obstacles.” Jim Rohn
“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” Benjamin Franklin
“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” Malcolm Forbes
“Wisdom does not have to come when we are old; we can find it much sooner.” John Izzo
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” William Butler Yeats
“Companies that don’t encourage employee education of all kinds are dumb.” Tom Peters
“If you believe that everyone in the organization must perform to his or her fullest potential to make the organization hum then training—for everyone—is essential.” General John M. Loh
“The book you don’t read won’t help.” Jim Rohn
“Nourish the mind like you would your body. The mind cannot survive on junk food.” Jim Rohn
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead
“Where there is convergence and focus, individual mediocrity may well sum up to collective brilliance. In their absence, individual brilliance may well sum up to collective mediocrity.” Hamel & Prahalad, Competing for the Future
“Leadership is the art of making the impossible come true.” Hamel & Prahalad, Competing for the Future
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.” John Quincy Adams
“In the past a leader was a boss. Today’s leaders must be partners with their people…they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.” Ken Blanchard
“People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else.” Unknown
“A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.” John Maxwell
“The real key to your influence with me is your example, your actual conduct. Your example flows naturally out of your character, or kind of person you truly are—not what others say you are or what you may want me to think you are. It is evident in how I actually experience you.” Stephen R. Covey
“In relationships, the little things are the big things.” Stephen R. Covey
“If everyone else is doing it, don’t!” Robert K. Cooper
“The minute you move from being a task-oriented professional to being a manager of people, it stops being about your individual talents, your successes, and starts being all about coaching, motivating, teaching, supporting, removing roadblocks, and finding resources for your employees. Leadership is about celebrating their victories and rewarding them; helping them analyze when things don’t go to plan. Their successes become your successes. Their failures are yours, too. Too many people today think leading is exclusively about their own performance.” Robert Joss
“Leadership is solving problems, and the day people stop bringing you their problems is the day you stop leading.” Colin Powell
“Service is about remarkable comebacks…the foul up followed by the heartfelt prompt fix is a lot more memorable even than getting it right the first time.” Tom Peters
“Every Interaction is an opportunity for compassion.” Daniel Goleman
“Laughter and smiling will build instant rapport.” Daniel Goleman
“We must love one another or die.” W.H. Auden
“Treat people with integrity and decency, and generally they will respond in kind.” Unknown
“If you are unhappy, get busy doing something for someone else. If you concentrate on yourself you will be unhappy, but if you focus on helping others you will find happiness. Happiness comes from serving and loving.” John Izzo
“Fame without contribution has little meaning, but contribution without fame has its own reward.” John Izzo
“The fact is, God didn’t create people to serve themselves. Everyone ultimately wants and needs to help others, and when they cannot, misery ensues.” Patrick Lencioni
“When someone sees an act of kindness, it typically stirs in them the impulse to perform one, too.” Daniel Goleman
“When we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind so seem smaller.” Daniel Goleman
“Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.” Basil Rathbone
“Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others.” Danny Thomas
“Excellence is doing a common thing in an uncommon way.” Unknown
“Within the fruits of success are the seeds of failure.” Hamel & Prahalad, Competing for the Future
“You might have big dreams, but you must understand that your long-term successes are a direct result of what you achieve every day.” Rick Pitino
“Today’s success is often tomorrow’s failure.” Rick Pitino
“Becoming successful is a process that never ends.” Rick Pitino
“Anyone can be great for a day, a week, a month. But the people who ultimately will be successful are the ones who understand that success is a long-term commitment, a marathon instead of a sprint.” Rick Pitino
“There is no passion to be found playing small—in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” Nelson Mandela
“Give the world the best you have and the best will come back to you.” Robert K. Cooper
“It is not enough to be good, when you have the ability to be great!” Anonymous
“Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people.” Barbara Bush
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.” Mark Twain
“We must look at change as possibility, a chance to be more successful.” Rick Pitino
“With good habits, success becomes second nature.” Rick Pitino
“We must be careful not to let our current appetites steal away any chance we might have for a future feast.” Jim Rohn
“Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.” Jim Rohn
“Few companies in any industry truly understand the enormous leverage of retaining clients.” Fortune Magazine, December 1995
“Getting clients is only half the battle…keeping them is the real challenge. Keep what you’ve worked so hard to get.” John Gamble
“To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an art.” Confucius
“Any company that drives forward while looking out the rearview mirror will, sooner or later, run into a brick wall. Urgency comes when everyone knows there is a brick wall out there, but that the wall is far enough away so there is still time to turn the wheel and avoid the crash. Top management’s responsibility is to make sure that wall always appears just a little closer than it really is.” Hamel & Prahalad, Competing for the Future
“To know and not to do, is not yet to know.” Zen philosophy
“Begin with the end in mind” Stephen Covey
“People don’t care how much you know about them once they know how much you care about them.” Harvey Mackay
“I have yet to find a man, whatever his situation in life, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he ever would do under a spirit of criticism.” Charles M. Schwab
“If you make a sale you make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune.” Jim Rohn
“People do what you model and inspect, not what you expect.” Anonymous
“Trust takes a long time to build, but it can be lost in a split second.” John Gamble
“Compensation is what you give people for doing the job they were hired to do. Recognition, on the other hand celebrates an effort beyond the call of duty.” Unknown
“Men and women want to do a good job, a creative job, and if they are provided the proper environment, they will do so.” Bill Hewlett
“Bureaucracy blocks initiative and creativity at every turn.” Hamel & Prahalad, Competing for the Future
“Empowerment without direction is anarchy.” Hamel & Prahalad, Competing for the Future
“It’s not surprising that when a company’s mission is largely undifferentiated from that of its competitors, employees may be less than inspired. What value is a mission statement, if it is totally undifferentiated?” Hamel & Prahalad, Competing for the Future
“Every employee has the right to feel that he or she is contributing to the building of a legacy—something of value that is bigger and more lasting than anything that one could accomplish on one’s own. Many companies are beginning to realize that all their employees have brains. How many companies, understand that their employees have hearts as well?” Hamel & Prahalad, Competing for the Future
“One of the stepping stones to a world-class operation is to tap into the creative and intellectual power of each and every employee.” Harold A. Poling
“People want to feel they’ve made a contribution—that they are doing worthwhile work. Few people are motivated only by money. People want to feel that what they do makes a difference in the world.” Frances Hesselbein
“Helping human beings fulfill their potential is a moral responsibility, but it’s also good business. “ Ralph Stayer
“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” Albert Einstein
“When the rate of change inside your organization is less than the rate of change outside your organization, the end is in sight.” Jack Welch
“It is vital that you motivate your people—customer, employee, vendors, suppliers—anyone who can contribute to the company’s success.” Robert Evans
“Don’t let what is immediately feasible to drive out what is ultimately desirable.” Hamel & Prahalad, Competing for the Future
“Transforming your life is a marathon, not a sprint.” Rick Pitino
“When we prioritize being loyal to a person or group over doing what we feel is right, we lose integrity.” Stephen R. Covey
“Adversity will usually start to resolve itself when you begin to take action.” Rick Pitino
“If it ain’t broke, break it.” Rick Pitino
“Good thoughts not acted upon mean squat.” Kenneth Blanchard
“Most of us can instantly improve our communication skills simply by listening more and speaking less.” Rick Pitino
“He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.” Chinese Proverb
“You’ve got to stand for something, or you’ll fall for anything.” Aaron Tippen
“How you relate to people in the workplace—both those above you and those below you—is vital, because you never know who might one day be your boss.” Rick Pitino
“Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.” Whitey Burnham
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Cherish what you need to know…even if it’s not what you’d like to hear.” Unknown
“Act quickly, think slowly.” Greek Proverb
“Our life is what our thoughts make of it.” Marcus Aurelius Antonius
“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” Theodore Roosevelt
“You must get good at one of two things: planting in the spring or begging in the fall.” Jim Rohn
“The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy.” Jim Rohn
“Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it rather than invest it.” Jim Rohn
“Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.” Peter Ducker
“The true definition of insanity is someone who gets up every day and does the same thing over and over and gets the same lousy results.” Unknown
“When we act on too many things at once, we wind up acting on nothing.” John Izzo
“The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, but the second best time is today.” Chinese Proverb
“Don’t count on cramming—if something is important to you, do it now.” George Beer
“When memories exceed dreams, the end is near.” Michael Hammer
“The problem with common sense is that it is not common.” Mark Twain
“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but it always robs today of its joy!” Leo Buscaglia
“In each moment, we must ask what really matters and act accordingly.” John Izzo
“Everything we do affects everything else. So, when we choose to love, whether our children or a stranger, we change the future.” John Izzo
“Good listening is common sense but rarely common practice.” Unknown
“Seek first to understand, then to be understood.” Stephen Covey
“No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.” Unknown
“If the spiritual nature that we carry with us isn’t first and foremost in our lives, then I don’t think our priorities are correct.” Bronco Mendenhall
“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.” Epictetus
“A pat on the back is worth a lot more than a kick in the fanny.” Charles Nirenberg
“Some men obtain a victory by exerting at the last moment, more vigorous effort than before.” Polybius
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” Eleanor Roosevelt
“One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build trust of those who are present.” Stephen R. Covey
“With life so short, why is the craft of living take so long to learn?” Chaucer
“Things which matter most should never be at the mercy of things that matter least.” Goethe
“Sometimes we need to sweat the small stuff.” Anonymous
“To get what we’ve never had we must do what we’ve never done.” Anonymous
“Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values.” Stephen R. Covey