John Wooden on doing things right the first time
If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
- John Wooden
Talking versus doing
Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
on how you make people feel
“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”
- Carl W. Buechner
Ram Charan on choosing people to work with
“Real leaders, I have found, exhibit an enthusiasm for selecting people who are better than they are.”
- Ram Charan
John Wooden on Change
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
- John Wooden
John Wooden on how to judge yourself
Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
- John Wooden
W. M. Lewis on getting started
“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.”
- W. M. Lewis