#821 - Excerpt from Wisdom Inc.

"All motivation is self-motivation.  Your family, your boss, your co-workers can try to get your engine going, but until you decide what yo accomplish, nothing will happen."

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#820 - Excerpt from Wisdom Inc.

"Why do some succeed where others have failed?  All other things being equal, the difference between success and failure is simple resourcefulness: Maximizing the value of what you already have."

Excerpt from Wisdom Inc.

#819 - Excerpt from Wisdom Inc.

"Part of being smart involves knowing when to admit you don't know something.  the brightest people ask the most questions.  If you don't know, ask."

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#818 - Excerpt from Wisdom Inc.

"Read.  And read some more.  Reading is the single most effective way to gain knowledge, which turns into intelligence.  Try visiting a bookstore at least once a month.  Since the average American buys just one book a year, you'll have an almost unfair advantage!"

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#815 - Excerpt from Wisdom Inc.

"If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?"

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#813 - Excerpt from Wisdom Inc.

"A balanced lifestyle doesn't necessarily mean less work and more play.  It does involve caring for yourself on every level: your body, your heart, your mind, and your soul.  Because caring for yourself makes you a more interesting, interested person - and a better employee."

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#812 - Excerpt from Wisdom Inc.

"A white tablecloth with one ink ink spot on it is more than 99% clean.  But every person who sees it will remember the stain, not the rest of the cloth."

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#811 - Larry Bossidy Quote

"You won't remember when you retire what you did in the first quarter of 1994, or the third.  What you'll remember is how many people you developed.  How man people you helped have a better career because of your interest and your dedication to their development...When confused as to how you're doing as a leader, find out how the people you lead are doing.  You'll know the answer."

-Larry Bossidy, former CEO of AlliedSignal

#810 - Excerpt from The World's Most Powerful Leadership Principle

"Remember, the leader always leaves his or her mark.  The only question is what type of mark is left behind.  Are people better or worse off because the leader was there?"

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#809 - Excerpt from The World's Most Powerful Leadership Principle

"I am convinced that most people have at least a reasonably good idea what they ought to do in a given situation.  We do have general knowledge of right and wrong and a conscience that can guide us.  The only question is, do we have the will to do the right thing?"

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#808 - Excerpt from The World's Most Powerful Leadership Principle

"No matter what product or service your organization produces, you are in the relationship business.  Have you figured this out yet?  It took me twenty years to understand that all life is - all business is - is a series of relationships.  Without people, there is no business." 

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#807 - John Maxwell Quote

"Leadership is influence - nothing more and nothing less."

-John Maxwell

#806 - Excerpt from The World's Most Powerful Leadership Principle

"Leadership is influencing people to willingly, even enthusiastically, contribute their hearts, minds, creativity, excellence, and other resources toward a mutually beneficial goal.  Leadership is influencing people to commit to the mission.  Leadership is influencing poel to become the best they are capable of becoming.  Accordingly, leadership is not synonymous with management.  Leadership is synonymous with influence."

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#805 - Excerpt from The World's Most Powerful Leadership Principle

"Leadership involves getting people from the neck up.  Leadership is influencing people to contribute their hearts, minds, spirits, creativity, and excellence and to give their all for their team.  Leadership is getting people to commit to the mission, to take the hill, to be all they can be."

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#804 - Excerpt from The World's Most Powerful Leadership Principle

"Simply knowing how to do the job well has little to do with developing the skills necessary to inspire others to do the job well."

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#803 - Excerpt from The World's Most Powerful Leadership Principle

"Management is about the things we do: the planning, the budgeting, the organizing, the problem solving, being in control, maintaining order, developing strategies, and a host of other things.  Management is what we do.  Leadership is who we are."

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#790 - Excerpt from The Richest Man Who Ever Lived King Solomon's Secrets to Success, Wealth, and Happiness by Steven K. Scott

"A vision is a precise, clearly defined goal with a detailed plan and timetable for achieving that goal."

 - Excerpt from The Richest Man Who Ever Lived King Solomon's Secrets to Success, Wealth, and Happiness by Steven K. Scott

#789 - Excerpt from The Richest Man Who Ever Lived King Solomon's Secrets to Success, Wealth, and Happiness by Steven K. Scott

"Diligence is a learnable skill that combines: creative persistence, a smart-working effort rightly planned and rightly performed in a timely, efficient, and effective manner to attain a result that is pure and of the highest quality of excellence."

 - Excerpt from The Richest Man Who Ever Lived King Solomon's Secrets to Success, Wealth, and Happiness by Steven K. Scott

#761 - John Mazur Quote

"If your work is not fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm."

-John Mazur
Former Head Coach, New England Patriots

#753 - Except from The 1% Solution

"People who work 10 to 12 hours a day are more than 56 percent likelier to develop heart disease or have a hear attack than people who work less than 10 hours.  The tragic thing is, it's not even worth it anyway, because beyond a certain point, spending extra time at work actually becomes counterproductive."

Except from The 1% Solution by Tom Connellan