“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” – Theodore Roosevelt As leaders we [...]
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming genuinely interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” – Dale Carnegie We’ve talked [...]
“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Joe Sabah This has been discussed in this space recently (here and here), but it’s worth saying again. There are so [...]
“Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” – Henry Ford One of the things leaders talk about on a regular basis is quality. They may not use that exact word, but when [...]
“Innovation without execution is hallucination.” – Thomas Edison One of the most commonly used words in any conversation around business these days is innovation. Everybody wants to be [...]
“We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don’t know.” – W. H. Auden Pride can be a valuable thing. It can motivate us to achieve great things. It can keep [...]
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” – Theodore Roosevelt We talk a lot in this space about planning and vision and all those kinds of good things. It’s critical [...]
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe I’m going to at least moderately break on of my own personal rules today. I [...]
“Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.” – Charles [...]
“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.” – Winston Churchill We are an accomplishment-oriented society. At work we receive praise for “getting things done”. [...]
