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There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.
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If you want to sail your ship in a different direction, you must turn one degree at a time.
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Determine a single measure that you can use to grade your progress and success in each area of your life. Refer to it daily.
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Develop a mentor at each stage of your career - someone who will give you guidance and advice.
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Act as if you were already the person you want most to be.
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Customers today want the very most and the very best for the very least amount of money, and on the best terms. Only the individuals and companies that provide absolutely excellent products and services at absolutely excellent prices will survive.
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In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action.
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The comfort zone is the great enemy of courage and confidence.
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Positive thinkers think and talk continually about solutions, and negative thinkers continually talk and think about problems. Keep your mind solution-focuse d rather than problem- focused.
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Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it.
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Perhaps the greatest display of self-discipline is persisting when the going gets tough. Persistence is self-discipline in action.
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Your company's most valuable asset is how it is known to customers.
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Make your life a masterpiece; imagine no limitations on what you can be, have or do
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Transgression of any kind is always accompanied by a loss of self-esteem.
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The world seems to belong to those who reach out and grab it with both hands. It belongs to those who do something rather than just wish and hope and plan and pray, and intend to do something someday, when everything is just right.
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Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.
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There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character.
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If you get up by 6am, exercise, plan your day, and start on your biggest task, then your whole day is different. If you do this regularly it becomes a habit.
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Everybody has a need for speed and you actually make your product, or service, or services more attractive when you do them fast.
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The law of cause and effect: If you do what other successful people do, you will eventually get the results that other successful people get.
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Time is your most precious resource; make every minute count.
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A feeling of continuous growth is a wonderful source of motivation and self confidence.
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Knowing how to deal with change effectively is a primary requirement for living successfully in perhaps the most exciting time in all of human history
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You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.