A star wants to see himself rise to the top.A leader wants to see those around him rise to the top.
Innovators are the ones whose dreams are clearer than the reality that tells them they’re crazy.
If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.
Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress: Working hard for something we love is called passion.
Working hard for something we do not care about is called stress, working hard for something we love is called passion.
Cowards…cling to the hope that failure will never happen and may be sloppy in the face of danger – not because they don’t acknowledge that it exists, but because they are just too afraid of it to look it in the eye.
Responsibility is not doing as we are told, that’s obedience. Responsibility is doing what is right.
Empathy is not something we offer to our customers or our employees from nine to five… (it) is… “a second by second, minute by minute service that [we] owe to everyone if [we] want to call [ourselves] a leader.
The goal is not simply to ‘work hard, play hard.’ The goal is to make our work and our play indistinguishable.
The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs what you have. The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe.
If you want to be a great leader, remember to treat all people with respect at all times. For one, because you never know when you’ll need their help. And two, because it’s a sign you respect people, which all great leaders do.
Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don’t think we can achieve something beyond what we’re qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams?
A leader’s job is not to do the work for others, it’s to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done, and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.
If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood, sweat, and tears.
Over 90% of people go home at the end of the day feeling unfulfilled by their work, and I won’t stop working until that statistic is reversed – until over 90% of people go home and can honestly say, ‘I love what I do.’
Some people are born good-looking. Some have the gift of gab. And some are lucky enough to be born smarter than the rest of us. Whether we like it or not, Mother Nature does not dole these characteristics out evenly.
We can’t all be good at everything. This is partly the logic behind having a team in the first place, so each role can be filled with the person best suited for that role and together, every job and every strength is covered.
One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader’s need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process.
Like a good parent can’t also be his child’s best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates.
At the end of the day, humans are social animals and we are at our best when we get to do things with others who appreciate and enjoy what we enjoy. It’s what keeps us human.
If you have the opportunity to do amazing things in your life, I strongly encourage you to invite someone to join you.
A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.
Leadership is not about the next election, it’s about the next generation.
Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.
Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.
Great leaders don’t need to act tough. Their confidence and humility serve to underscore their toughness.
Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.
A sour corporate culture can actually make an entire society unhappy. This means that a strong corporate culture can have a positive impact on a society.
When you explain to people what you’re trying to do, as opposed to just making demands or delegating tasks, you can build instant trust, even if it’s just for that short time you’re on the phone.
The single best machine to measure trust is a human being. We haven’t figured out a metric that works better than our own sort of, like, ‘There’s something fishy about you.’
I find, when you’re an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you.
TiVo and other digital recording devices have confounded advertisers. The ad industry sees the technology as a threat to their product.
The U.S. Constitution protects our privacy from the prying eyes of government. It does not, however, protect us from the prying eyes of companies and corporations.
The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.