Innovation

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why. ~ Albert Einstein

Integrity

"I look for three things in hiring people. The first is personal integrity, the second is intelligence, and the third is a high energy level. But, if you don't have the first, the other two will kill you." ~ Warren Buffett, CEO, Berkshire Hathaway

Leadership

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. ~ John Quincy Adams

Leadership

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it. ~ Marian Anderson

Proactivity

People who let events and circumstances dictate their lives are living reactively. That means that they don't act on life, they only react to it. ~ Stedman Graham

VIsion

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. ~ Michelangelo

Choice

The amount of people that fail is directly proportionate to the amount of people that give up. ~ Joseph McClendon III

Success

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which have been overcome while trying to succeed. ~ Booker T. Washington

Success

"I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: try to please everybody." ~ Herbert Bayard Swope

 

Principle

In matters of style, swim with the current;
In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
~Thomas Jefferson

 

Vision

There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream. ~ Author Unknown

Choice

A leader’s role is to raise people’s aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there. ~ David R. Gergen

Inspiration

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. ~John Quincy Adams

Influence

"There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life." ~ Sister Mary Rose McGeady

Choice

"It's not what people do to us that hurts us, it's our chosen response to what they do that hurts us." ~ Stephen R. Covey

Character

"You don't have to blow out the other person's light to let your own shine." ~ Bernard M. Baruch

Character

"Our first energies should go to our own character development, which is often invisible to others, like the roots that sustain great trees. As we cultivate the roots, we will begin to see the fruits." ~ Stephen R. Covey

Character

"You can judge a person's character by the way he treats people who can't help him or hurt him." ~ Anonymous

Choice

"Between what happens to us and our response is a space. In that space lies our freedom to choose our response." ~ Anonymous

Habit

"There are three key qualities to develp the habits of focus and concentration: decision, discipline, and determination. First, make a decision to develop the habit of task completion. Second discipline yourself to practice the principles you are about to learn over and over until they become automatic. And third, back everything you do with determination until the habit is locked in and becomes a permanent part of your personality." ~ Brian Tracy