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“Of all the things that can boost inner work life, the most important is making progress in meaningful work.” – Teresa Amabile Click here for the article
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier Click here for the article
“A company can seize extra-ordinary opportunities only if it is very good at the ordinary operations.” – Marcel Telles Click here for the article
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” – Peter Drucker Click here for the article
“It’s not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between 9 and 5. It’s whether or not our work fulfils us.” – Malcolm Gladwell Click here for the article
“Before you become a leader, success is all about growing yourself. After you become a leader, success is about growing others.” – Jack Welch Click here for the article
“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.” – Andrew Carnegie Click here for the article
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Click here for the article
“A leader is best when people barely know he exists…when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will all say: We did it ourselves.” – Lao-Tzu Click here for the article
“Clarity and simplicity are the antidotes to complexity and uncertainty.” – General George Casey Click here for the article
“Servant-leadership is all about making the goals clear and then rolling your sleeves up and doing whatever it takes to help people win. In that situation, they don’t work for you, you work for them.” – Ken Blanchard Click here for the article
“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not a bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.” – Jim Rohn Click here for the article
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Click here for the article
“It is not the strongest nor the most intelligent of species that survives, but the one that is most adaptable to change.” – Charles Darwin Click here for the article
“Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.” – Anthony Robbins Click here for the article
“We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.” – Jeff Bezos Click here for the article
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” – Abraham Lincoln Click here for the article
“Show me the incentive, and I will show you the outcome.” – Charlie Munger Click here for the article
“It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.” – Amelia Barr Click here for the article
“Success is the result of nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.” – Jim Rohn Click here for the article
“It is vain to do more what can be done with less.” – William of Ockham Click here for the article
“A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame, and a little less than his share of the credit.” – John Maxwell Click here for the article
“I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader Click here for the article
“Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.” – Brian Tracy Click here for the article
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates Click here for the article
“The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.” – William H. Murray Click here for the article
“If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.” – Seth Godin Click here for the article
“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar Click here for the article
“If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.” – Vincent Van Gogh Click here for the article
“All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.” W. Edwards Deming Click here for the article
“It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.” – W. Edwards Deming Click here for the article
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