“People who make growth their goal—instead of a title, position, salary, or other external target—always have a future.”

“A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided.”

“If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.”

“It doesn’t matter how much milk you spill as long as you don’t lose your cow!”

“It’s easier to move from failure to success than from excuses to success.”

“Several years ago Dr. Maxwell Maltz’s book, Psycho-Cybernetics, was one of the most popular books on the market. Dr. Maltz was a plastic surgeon who often took disfigured faces and made them more attractive. He observed that in every case, the patient’s self-image rose with his and her physical improvement. In addition to being a successful surgeon, Dr. Maltz was a great psychologist who understood human nature. A wealthy woman was greatly concerned about her son, and she came to Dr. Maltz for advice. She had hoped that the son would assume the family business following her husband’s death, but when the son came of age, he refused to assume that responsibility and chose to enter an entirely different field. She thought Dr. Maltz could help convince the boy that he was making a grave error. The doctor agreed to see him, and he probed into the reasons for the young man’s decision. The son explained, “I would have loved to take over the family business, but you don’t understand the relationship I had with my father. He was a driven man who came up the hard way. His objective was to teach me self-reliance, but he made a drastic mistake. He tried to teach me that principle in a negative way. He thought the best way to teach me self-reliance was to never encourage or praise me. He wanted me to be tough and independent. Every day we played catch in the yard. The object was for me to catch the ball ten straight times. I would catch that ball eight or nine times, but always on that tenth throw he would do everything possible to make me miss it. He would throw it on the ground or over my head but always so I had no chance of catching it.” The young man paused for a moment and then said, “He never let me catch the tenth ball—never! And I guess that’s why I have to get away from his business; I want to catch that tenth ball!”

“If you're not failing, you're probably not really moving forward.”

“To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful.”

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“Cuando los líderes aprenden buenos valores y los viven, ellos mismos se hacen más valiosos e incrementan el valor de las demás personas.”

“There are two types of people in the business community: those who produce results and those who give you reasons why they didn’t.”

“people who do not forgive are hurting themselves much more than they’re hurting others.”

“Every message that people receive is filtered through the messenger who delivers it.”

“you must be interested in finding the best way, not in having your own way.”

“Un líder es grande, no por su poder, sino por su habilidad de hacer surgir poder a otros.”