Robin S. Sharma Quotes

Most organizations don't fall apart as a result of one big blow. Most relationships don't end because of one grand argument. Most lives don't fall to pieces due to one sad event. No, I suggest to you that sustained failure happens as the consequence of small, daily acts of neglect that stack up over time to lead to a blow up - and break down.

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You can stay angry at someone who hurt you. Or you can get busy doing your visions and changing our world. But you don't get to do both.

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Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.

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I've had some wins. And been knocked down with defeats. Glimpsed views from the top of the mountain. And walked through the darkest of valleys. But through this entire ride called 'a life' - I've refused to give up.

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A leadership culture is one where everyone thinks like an owner, a CEO or a managing director. It's one where everyone is entrepreneurial and proactive.

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Top athletes understand that to play at their best, they must alternate periods of intense performance with periods of strategic renewal.

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My encouragement: delete the energy vampires from your life, clean out all complexity, build a team around you that frees you to fly, remove anything toxic, and cherish simplicity. Because that's where genius lives.

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Be a warrior when it comes to delivering on your ambitions. And a saint when it comes to treating people with respect, modeling generosity, and showing up with outright love.

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Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.

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The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.

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Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title.

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Epic production has less to do with your willpower and more to do with the routines you install. Get those right, and you'll enjoy exponential results automatically.

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I've found I get big things done when I'm on airplanes or in hotel rooms. It's a total needle-mover to book a fantastic room in a place you adore and then put the 'do not disturb' on the phone and door for a week.

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If we are paying attention to our lives, we'll recognise those defining moments. The challenge for so many of us is that we are so deep into daily distractions and 'being busy, busy' that we miss out on those moments and opportunities that - if jumped on - would get our careers and personal lives to a whole new level of wow.

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My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I've spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you.

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As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.

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We have a normal. As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.

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People fear leaving their safe harbor of the known and venturing off into the unknown. Human beings crave certainty - even when it limits them.

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We are built to love. Have the bravery to open the heart you have contracted from life's disappointments. This is how the heroes roll.

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The best in business have boundless curiosity and open minds.

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Exercising will make you look better, feel stronger, and fill you with boundless energy. Staying fit will even make you happier.

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Help others reach world-class. And they'll joyfully help you get to your best.

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No matter how busy I get or how much pressure is on my shoulders, a good workout makes me feel at ease. I come off the treadmill feeling relaxed, full of joy and with a sense of perspective over the issues on my plate.

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Leadership is a mindset that shifts from being a victim to creating results. Any one of us can demonstrate leadership in our work and within our lives.

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Greatness comes by doing a few small and smart things each and every day. Comes from taking little steps, consistently. Comes from a making a few small chips against everything in your professional and personal life that is ordinary, so that a day eventually arrives when all that's left is The Extraordinary.

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If you've tried everything possible to get an outcome, and it just hasn't worked out as planned, stop trying so hard. Relax. Maybe the timing's not right. Maybe it wasn't in your best interests. Maybe while one door seems to be closing, another is opening.

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Success is seductive. It can make one complacent and inefficient and stale.

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Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity.

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There is a new model of leadership in the world that rides on the premise that every single person in the organisation can be a leader. Titles are important for structure and order, but real power does not come from titles.

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The true leader - the genuine world-builder - lives to the point. Acutely concentrated on the few high priorities that will deliver the life of their greatest aspirations. At the end.

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If there are only three guys at the top of the organization handling things, it's the definition of a bankrupt company. In creating leaders without titles, we are going to have organizations with people at the helm putting forth their best.

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Unsuccessful people are the ones who are impressed by celebrity, by people's names and titles.

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Goal-getting matters. And writing down the brave acts and bold dreams you intend to accomplish will provide the spark to get them done.

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I write in a journal daily. This extraordinary ritual has revolutionised my mindset, transformed my heartset, and generally influenced my life exponentially.

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So many amongst us live in the past rather than loving the present and building a brilliant future. Some people stay stuck for years over something they did or a failure they've experienced. Sad. A life is a terrible thing to waste.

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Managers develop organisations; leaders develop people.

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I buy a lot of books I never read. But that's not really a waste, since all it takes is one idea from even one book to radically reshape the way a person leads, thinks and lives.

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You can't become a history-maker stuck in tiny thinking. You just can't.

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Hard work opens doors and shows the world that you are serious about being one of those rare - and special - human beings who use the fullness of their talents to do their very best.

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Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics.

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Cynicism stems from disappointment. Cynical and faithless people were not always like that. They were filled with possibilities and hope as kids. But they tried and perhaps failed.

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I used to be incredibly afraid of public speaking. I started with five people, then I'd speak to 10 people. I made it up to 75 people, up to 100, and now I can speak to a very large group, and it feels similar to speaking to you one-on-one.

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I wish for a world where everyone understands that discomfort is the price of legendary. And fear is just growth coming to get you.

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Don't always be so reasonable and practical and sensible that you refuse to seize glorious opportunities when they show up and push the envelope as to what's possible for you.

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I'd done all the things I thought a person had to do in order to be successful and fulfilled, like getting a great education and becoming a lawyer, and yet there was zero spark in my life. But there was no light-bulb moment. It was gradual. In the early 1990s, I decided to experiment and try some new ways of living.

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Victims recite problems. Leaders develop solutions. That might seem like common sense, but common sense is rarely common practice.

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I believe we can accelerate our acumen, performance and success by leveraging our associations and spending time with people better than us.

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One of my weaknesses is impatience. I just have this aching need to get great things done. Can't stand slow change.

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The brighter the fire in your belly to achieve something special, the more hurts you'll have.

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Knowing what to say, in the right way - at the perfect moment - can mean the difference between a world-class life and an average one.

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Most people in business and within their personal lives move towards complexity. More To Dos. More projects. More products. More meetings. More possessions. More goals. The best - I suggest to you - move in the opposite direction.

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When I need to complete a project of primary importance, I'm around nature a lot.

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Transcending what terrifies you and finding freedom from fear is one of the primary pursuits of people rising to world-class, both in their work and within their lives.

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No one wants to fail. So most of us don't even try. Sad. We don't even take that first step to improve our health or to deepen our working relationships or to realize a dream.

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The world needs many more dreamers. Unreasonable souls who fight the urge to be ordinary.

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Too many people start their day like a five-alarm fire. Instead, I teach people to start their day a little earlier than they usually do, and urge them to take the time to prepare, to practise, so when you get to work, it's show time and you're at your best.

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By seizing the opportunities that disruption presents and leveraging hard times into greater success through outworking/outinnovating/outthinking and outworking everyone around you, this just might be the richest time of your life so far.

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Showing leadership doesn't mean every employee will run the organization; that would lead to chaos. Businesses do need someone to set the vision and then lead the team to it.

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I try to work out daily in the morning hours. This drives up energy levels dramatically. You'll feel more inspired. And you'll need less sleep.

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The fears you do not face become your walls. Most people in business, and in their personal lives, design everything so they can avoid doing what makes them feel uncomfortable. Yet any good business person knows we are not only paid to work, but also we are paid to be scared.

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Once every seven days, do something that frightens you. Every time we do something that we resist and is frightening, we actually grow in our power.

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Three hours of focused time on the projects that will really add value and uplift your career are so much better than 10 hours where you are constantly being interrupted and taken off your focus.

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Difficult times disrupt your conventional ways of thinking and push you to forge better habits of thought, performance and being.

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The best businesspeople have a hunger to make their todays better than their yesterdays. They have a staggeringly large appetite for pushing the envelope.

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Forgiveness isn't just a blessing you deliver to another human being. Forgiveness is also a gift you give yourself.

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I'm not one of those New Age types that believe 'it's all meant to be' and that our lives have been scripted by an invisible hand.

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I take a massage each week. This isn't an indulgence, it's an investment in your full creative expression/productivity/passion and sustained good health.

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As we produce work that becomes pure poetry, we impact and influence our teammates, we wow our suppliers, we inspire customers and strangers. And we lead our industry.

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People want to be a part of an organization that lets them be fully alive and bring their gifts to work. People really do want to be engaged and feel proud of their contribution.

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I had lost a clear sense of the vision and values instilled in me as a child and was no longer driven by any mission or passion. I made the difficult decision to pull back from the noise of my life and reinvent the way I was living and leading.

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Be spectacularly great at what you do. Wear your passion on your sleeve and hold your heart in the palm of your hand. And work hard. Really hard.

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I'm an evangelist for the idea of being ultrafit if you want to be the best of breed. Getting into world-class physical condition is one of the smartest moves you can make.

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It's so easy to get caught up in the thick of thin things. So seductive to spend your finest hours climbing mountains that, at the end, turn out to be the wrong ones.

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The project you are most scared to do is the one that holds your greatest growth.

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True, foolish risks can lead to difficult consequences. But having said that, don't be so scared of failure and disappointment that you fail to dream.

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You need to give to get. Give support to get it. Give praise to receive it. Give your best to get your wishes. Give more love to be beloved. Give to get.

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I get so many big ideas while I'm running and such clarity while I'm lifting weights. And staying fit keeps me happy and positive.

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Your income reflects your self-identity. Your impact reveals your personal story.

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I believe it's strikingly important to remember that when you know better, you can do better. With higher levels of awareness, you can make smarter choices. And the more clarity you get as to who you want to become, the quicker you can start making the choices need to get you there.

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Remember, we see the world not as it is but as we are. Most of us see through the eyes of our fears and our limiting beliefs and our false assumptions.

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Delegate to others who have strengths where you don't. But sometimes, you just need to be the one to drive the change when everyone else is waiting for someone else to take the first step. To me, that's courage in action.

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I was a litigation lawyer, following the crowd off the proverbial cliff, when I pressed the pause button.

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Small, daily elevations compound into massive results over time.

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Anyone can show exceptional leadership ability in easy times. When all's going to plan, anyone can be inspirational/excellent/innovative and strong. The real question is how do you show up when everything's falling apart?

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I bought my own home in 2004. It's a sanctuary for my family and a place of peace and calm. It's key for anyone committed to leadership and success to avoid the noise and focus on their best opportunities.

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One of the core organizing principles of my life is that success comes through a delicate balance between making things happen and letting things happen.

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Please remember that as you become a more extraordinary human being, every element of your outer world must change accordingly. Just has to. So the more remarkable you become, the more remarkable will be the professional and personal life you'll create.

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I was a litigation lawyer. That's all very logical. Become a litigation lawyer. Become successful. Have a nice office. But there was some pull inside of me saying, self-publish this book. I followed that intuition and it's been a great choice for me in my life.

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I was a litigation lawyer, working in downtown Toronto. I was successful, yet I was very unfulfilled. I had the sense that I really wasn't living according to my values, and I didn't have the passion or sense of mission I was looking for.

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Every one of us wakes up in the morning, walks out into the world, and does the best we can do based on what we know and the skills we have.

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Talk is cheap. Actions speak.

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The best do sweat the small stuff. They get the seemingly insignificant details right. They have the discipline to shine at the baby things which they get gives birth to spectacular giant things.

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Being productive at your craft is important. Being productive in your devotion to grow as a human is essential.

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Success is ever so dangerous. Once you rise to success, it's so easy to stop doing the things that made you successful.

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Questions matter. In business, remarkable performers are brilliant at getting to the right question: the one that speeds them to the place they need to get to and offers them the missing piece they need to find.

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Your billion-dollar ideas don't show up in the middle of dramatic distraction. They show up when you have the business and personal discipline to make space for your creative mind to flourish.

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If you're the smartest person you know, it's time to know some new people.

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Let planning be the springboard, so that spirituality can be our splash.

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As for whether I am a 'new age guru', I am not at all. I help companies build employees who lead without a title and become high performers.

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I wish for a world where people understand that life is short. So today's the time to do big things.

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The little things amount to big things.

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Go for great. Own your game. Be kind. Get big things done.

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If you really want to be world class - to be the best you can be - it comes down to preparation and practice.

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Getting up early is one of the gifts I give myself.

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The vast masterpieces of art, business, science, and humanity were not constructed by practical people.

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This beautiful, messy, wonderful and volatile world of ours needs more heroes.

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If you're the most productive person in your community, it's definitely time to find a new community.

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The business of business is relationships; the business of life is human connection.

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We live in a world where many of us have a lot of friends on Facebook but yet we have lost human connection.

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I'm a simple man. Grew up in a small town. Came from humble beginnings. No silver spoon.

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Stay true to your vision/dream. There's something to be said for just staying at what you are trying to achieve well past the point everyone else gives up.

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Here's the thing: When you become brilliant at listening, people feel that you care about them. When they feel you care about them, they begin to care about you. And when people care about you, your success becomes a part of how they define their success.

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I have spent years as a leadership coach to the very wealthy and have been able to get behind the eyes of some of the world's best, studying the minute details of what makes a person great.

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Listening is a master skill for personal and professional greatness.

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To get to world-class, don't miss any opportunity to leverage the learning/insights/experiences of the people you meet. Because we really do become our conversations.

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The difference between a remarkable life and a mediocre one is not nearly as large as you might imagine. Nope, we all pretty much start out with the same raw stuff.

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The fears you run away from run toward you. The fears you don't own will own you. But behind every fear wall lives a precious treasure.

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Most of my ideas are based on the latest research on productivity, performance and mental mastery - that's why so many iconic companies bring me in to help them grow and win.

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Success is not a function of the size of your title but the richness of your contribution.

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We do become our conversations. We really will become our associations.

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We are shaped by our conversations.

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Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done.

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The more you rely/trust and believe in your team and the bigger the investment you make in getting them to their greatness, the larger will be the commitment, engagement, and outright devotion they have when it comes to you.

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Just imagine how fast, innovative and excellent your business will be once every single teammate - from the janitor to the executive - begins to see themselves as the CEO of their own area of responsibility.

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I wish for a world that gets that your 'I Can' is exponentially more important than your IQ.

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The relationship that tests/frustrates/irritates you the most actually is one of your greatest blessings. Why? Because it reveals to you the very beliefs/fears and false assumptions that most limit you.

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Stay true to your values.

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I'm pretty conservative. I believe that buying good quality is a good investment. I buy fewer things but of better quality.

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The more people you help and the more value you create, the more your business will fly - and the quicker you'll win.

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Inner improvements create outer ones.

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Much of my life has been a devotion to a simple expression: you can Lead Without a Title.

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One of the fastest ways to find the solution to an issue or challenge you are facing is to ask the right questions.

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While their competition is asleep, world-class leaders are up - and they're not watching the news or reading the paper. They are thinking, planning and practicing.

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One of my favorite books is 'Man's Search for Meaning.'

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Simple idea with powerful consequences: everyone who intersects your life knows something you don't.

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You can inspire the world. Or you can be liked by all. You don't get to do both.

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I love great quotes.

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I adore India, its culture, and all the beauty of the nation. My father is from Jammu, and he's had a profound influence on my mindset and way of being.

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Your performance in the world is simply the result of the things you believe.

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Leaders listen. Staggeringly well.

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The most important things in life have nothing to do with things.

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Whether you lead a nation, an enterprise, a community, or a family, we are all in the communication business.

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You cannot lead others until you have first learned to lead yourself.

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We are influenced by the ideas we hear and the people we meet.

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Each of us, every day, through the jobs we do, are offered a shot at greatness, an opportunity to reach immortality.

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Everyone is influencing the people around them one way or another.

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Leaders understand that the real fight is the fight against time. There's so much to achieve in such less time.

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There is a cure for anti-aging that actually works - it's called lifelong learning.

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The people you can't stand can actually transform your life. And help you become happier, healthier, and more successful.

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You can't do the finest work of your career staying in your city.

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Leadership and greatness comes to those who follow-through. Who stand for near-flawless execution.

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I wish for a world where success is measured not by what we take nor by what we get. Just by what we give. And who we become.

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I move things forward fast. Just love speed.

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Most of us are cut from the same cloth. We all can be a hero if we choose. And it just isn't that hard.

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The best of the best understand that people do business with people they like. People do business with people they trust, and people do business with those who make them feel special.

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Most of the things we are afraid will happen never do. Something to think about.

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