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The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don’t think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don’t sidestep it, but "we" […]
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“Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.”
– Thomas J. Watson, IBM founder
RARE LEADERSHIP RECOMMENDS
Overacheivment, by John Eliot. Some books talk about setting goals, this one talks about playing at work. Dr. Eliot speculates, quite interestingly, what Richard Branson and […]
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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Annie Dillard
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"I long to accomplish some great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."
Helen Keller
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“Don’t waste your effort on a thing that results in a petty triumph unless you are satisfied with a life of petty issues.”
John D. Rockefeller
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"Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men."
E. B. White
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"No one in this world, so far as I know, has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of plain people."
H. L. Mencken
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"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
Winston Churchill
The Eight Fundamentals of Success
To achieve significance, you will need to make eight commitments. These commitments are more of an art than a science. They are the raw materials from which you develop your mark on the world.
Over time these will be expounded upon in greater detail.
1. You must make a commitment to PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY
2. You must make […]
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"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."
Abraham Lincoln