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When We Are In Groups, When We Are Surrounded By People Who Believe What We Believe, Trust Emerges And Our Very Survival And Progress Goes Up.

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When We Are In Groups, When We Are Surrounded By People Who Believe What We Believe, Trust Emerges And Our Very Survival And Progress Goes Up.

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The Quality Of A Leader Cannot Be Judged By The Answers He Gives, But By The Questions He Asks.

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We Should Never Change Our Minds About Where We Are Going, But Always Be Curious About Different Ways To Get There.

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All Organizations Start With Why, But Only The Great Ones Keep Their Why Clear Year After Year.

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Change For The Better

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Truly Effective And Inspiring Leaders Aren’t Actually Driven To Lead People; They Are Driven To Serve Them.

Most Politicians Are Not Authentic.

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I Never Imagined I'd Write A Book.

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A Why Has To Be For Others. It's Something You Give To The World. It's The Reason Your Friends Love You Because This Is The Thing That You Give Them And It Fulfills Them. This Is The Reason Your Clients Love You Or Your Fans Love You Because You Give Them Something. It's Something To Offer, That's What The Why Is.

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If Everything Goes Right, We Get A Good Experience. If Everything Goes Wrong, We Get A Good Story.

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Success Always Takes Help. Failure Is Done Alone.

Don't Give To Get. Give To Inspire Others To Give.

Selfish Is Easy. It's Sharing That Takes Courage.

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Spending Time With The Military Certainly Lends Itself To Some Remarkable Experiences, And I've Been Privileged To Have Had My Share.

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There's Nothing Efficient About Innovation.

The Mind Can Be Convinced, But The Heart Must Be Won.

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Leaders Are The Ones Who Have The Courage To Go First, To Put Themselves At Personal Risk To Open A Path For Others To Follow.

If You Have The Opportunity To Do Amazing Things In Your Life, I Strongly Encourage You To Invite Someone To Join You.

The Value Of Our Lives Is Not Determined By What We Do For Ourselves. The Value Of Our Lives Is Determined By What We Do For Others.

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The Responsibility Of Leadership Is Not To Come Up With All The Ideas But To Create An Environment In Which Great Ideas Can Thrive.

I Don't Have To Convince Everybody In The Room. I Just Need A Critical Mass Of The People In The Room.

If We Were Good At Everything We Would Have No Need For Each Other.

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Never Opt For Change Simply To Leave Something You Don't Like. Change Works Best When You Go Toward Something, Even If It Is The Unknown.

I've Been Dogmatic To Use Myself As A Case Study.

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Success Is When Reality Catches Up To Your Imagination.

Managers Watch Over Our Numbers, Our Time And Our Results. Leaders Watch Over Us.

If Somebody Wants To Learn Their Why, Either You Help Them Or Send Them Over To Their Course. All Of This Stuff Helps.

To Succeed Takes More Than The Desire To Win. It Also Takes The Acceptance That We Could Fail.

Instead Of Showing Up To Let Everyone Know How Great We Are, Show Up To Find Out How Great Everyone Else Is.

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Authorities Act With Themselves In Mind. Leaders Act With Others In Mind. Authorities Take. Leaders Give. Authorities Die. Leaders Live On.

Putting Yourself First Is Not Selfish. Quite The Opposite. You Must Put Your Happiness And Health First Before You Can Be Of Help To Anyone Else.

Starbucks Was Founded Around The Experience And The Environment Of Their Stores. Starbucks Was About A Space With Comfortable Chairs, Lots Of Power Outlets, Tables And Desks At Which We Could Work And The Option To Spend As Much Time In Their Stores As We Wanted Without Any Pressure To Buy. The Coffee Was Incidental.

Leadership Isn't Answering The Questions Others Ask. Leadership Is Asking Others To Answer Their Own Questions.

Great Leaders Don't See Themselves As Great; They See Themselves As Human.

Academic Experts May Not Be Good At Doing What They Are Experts In Themselves, But They Are Good At Explaining The Subject Matter To Others. They Write Books, Teach Courses And Offer Lessons And Give Steps Others Can Follow.

Some In Management Positions Operate As If They Are In A Tree Of Monkeys. They Make Sure That Everyone At The Top Of The Tree Looking Down Sees Only Smiles. But All Too Often, Those At The Bottom Looking Up See Only Asses.

If You Can Clearly Articulate The Dream Or The Goal, Start.

My Job Is To Preach And Preach And Preach.

Spending Too Much Time Focused On Others' Strengths Leaves Us Feeling Weak. Focusing On Our Own Strengths Is What, In Fact, Makes Us Strong.

People Who Go To Work To Be A Part Of The Cause Don't Go Home. They Are Home. Now - Who Wants To Quit?

I Don't Enjoy Eating Humble Pie; It Never Tastes Good. But I Do Appreciate It When It Happens.

If You Sell What You Do, You're A Vendor. If You Sell Why You Do It, You're A Brand.

A Movement Only Exists When People Are Inspired To Move, To Do Something, To Make The Cause Their Own.

Every Single Organization - Or Career, For That Matter - Exists On Three Levels: What You Do, How You Do It And Why You Do It.

The Leaders Who Get The Most Out Of Their People Are The Leaders Who Care Most About Their People.

Directions Are Instructions Given To Explain How. Direction Is A Vision Offered To Explain Why.

Stress And Anxiety At Work Have Less To Do With The Work We Do And More To Do With Weak Management And Leadership.

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Wal-mart's Size And Scale Is So Vast They Literally Have The Ability To Change The Face Of The Entire Country. If Wal-mart Were To Make A Decision Tomorrow To Refuse To Sell A Single Product Made With Partially Hydrogenated Oils, For Example, We'd Probably See Rates From Heart Disease Decline A Few Years Later. That's How Powerful Wal-mart Is.

It's Important To Slow Down, Every Now And Then, For No Other Reason Than To Call Someone To Say 'hi.' It Doesn't Have To Be A Long Conversation. Just Calling Out Of The Blue Does More To Let Someone Know You Still Care About Them Than Nearly Anything Else.

Our Vision Is Only Actionable If We Share It. Without Sharing, It’s Just A Figment Of Our Imagination.

Focus On Money And We Will Make Money. Focus On Impact And We Will Make An Impact.

Following Takes Why. Transactions Take What. It Has To Be Real. It Has To Be The Same For Writing A Book.

My Concern Is That We Live In An Economy In Which Stabbing Someone And Waiting For Them To Complain Before We Remove The Knife Has Become The Normal Way Of Doing Business. When Did We Lose Sight Of The Fact That It's Not Nice To Stab People In The First Place?

Taking A Job For The Cash Is Not As Important As Taking A Job For The Joy.

The Reason We Grow Up To Be Healthy Adults Is Because Our Parents Played This Game Of Giving Us Responsibility, Disciplining Us When Necessary, Letting Us Try, Letting Us Fail. No Matter What We Know They Are There To Support Us And See Us Do Well. Leaders Are Exactly The Same.

Progress And Innovation Happen When You Set Unrealistic Goals.

Don't Freak Yourself Out By What Other People Have. They Don't Have What You've Got.

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