Your days are your life in miniature.
"A mind once stretched by a new idea can never return to its original dimensions."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Knowing how to do something and not doing it is same as not knowing how to do it.
"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed with the things you didnt do than by the things you did."
-Mark Twain.
You cant win a game you dont even play.
Success is all about consistency around the fundamentals. The only thing thats rocket science is rocket science.
Before someone will lend you a hand, you need to touch their heart.
The things that get scheduled are the things that get done.
Every time you say yes to something thats unimportant, you are saying "no" to something thats important.
Know what needs to get done in the coming days, weeks, months and years for you to feel that you played the best game as a human being.
We see the world not as it is but as we are.
"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, but the second best time is today."
-Chinese Proverb.
"If you have not discovered something to die for, you are not fit to live."
-Martin Luther King Jr.
"What are you doing speaks so loudly that i cant hear what you are saying."
There can be no authentic success and lasting happiness if your daily schedule is misaligned with your deepest values. Ensure your daily actions are aligned with your deepest values.
"After climbing a hill, one finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance i have come. But i can rest only for a moment, for freedom comes with responsibilities, and i dire not linger, for my long walk has not yet ended."
-Nelson Mandela.
Walk towards your fears to defeat them.
This world has been built by people who were not happy with the way it was and knew they could do better.
"The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret."
-Nido Qubein.
"Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals."
-Samuel Ullman.
The smallest of actions is always better than noblest of intentions.
The paradox of our wired world is that as we become more connected electronically, we become less connected emotionally.
Business is about loving the people who do business with you and giving them more value than they have any right to expect.
"If you think you are too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room."
-Anita Roddick (Founder, The Body Shop).
Behind every wall of fear, there lies a precious treasure.
Inside every problem lies a precious opportunity to improve things.
A mistake is only a mistake if you make it twice.
Commit to being breathtakingly great in whatever you do.
Why wait to get old to become experienced?
"I am not a businessman. I am a business, man."
-Jay-Z.
"There will be plenty of time to sleep once you are dead."
-Benjamin Franklin.
"Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is completed:If you are alive, it isnt."
-Richard Bach.
To earn more you must learn more.
"The most important job you have is growing your people, giving them a chance to realize their dreams."
-Jack Welch.
There is no point in being busy if you are busy doing the wrong things.
"What dent will you make today?"
-Steve Jobs.
Few success practices are as important as articulating your most closely held goals and then reviewing them daily.
The real value of reaching a goal lies not in the result achieved but in what the journey you have walked to get the goal has made of you as a person.
"If everyone was satisfied with themselves, there would be no heroes."
-Mark Twain.
Do good and leave behind a virtue that the storm of time can never destroy.
Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten.
"My tastes are simple-I just want the best."
The people who have the most time for fun are those who know how to plan and then use their time well.
You will get to the end of your life anyway- Why not reach that place as an extraordinary human being?
At the end of our lives few if us regret having made more money.
The company that plays together stays together.
People love doing business with people who love doing business.
If people dont laugh at you and your ideas once a week, you are not pushing the envelope.
Leadership begins within. Organizational leadership begins with personal leadership.
Enjoy life while you chase success.
Greatness comes by beginning something that does not end with you.
Its never too late to become the person you have always dreamed of becoming.
The best thing to do is often the hardest thing to do.
"Progress is often the difference between mind and mindset."
-Narayana Murthy.
Noone ever won a war by dieing for his country but he won it by making the other person die for his country.
"Dont be prisoners of past successes. Build and move on."
-Jagdish Khattar.
"For standing for truth there will be a price, just as for telling lies there will be penalties; hence choose which one you want to pay."
-Kiran Bedi.
People who do not take charge of their lives are lathicharged by time.
Change is the law. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
You have to be able to make risky assumptions to undertake a new venture.
In 3 years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.
One day an eager upstart will put Microsoft out of business.
If you decline to take risks early, you will decline in the market later. If you bet big, though, only a few of those risks have to succeed to provide for your future.
If you dont believe that all the employees have the potential to contribute to your company's success, all the technology in the world wont empower them. Once you assume that every employee should be a knowledge worker, technology will help every employee to put his full abilities to work on company's behalf.
"The prediction i can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing inventions will be those that we are today not wise enough to foresee."
-Carl Sagan (Astronomer).