Quotes from Chris Brady

A true leader makes a decision and then works to make the decision right.

If you focus any energy trying to please those you're not for, you will change how you do things and simultaneously stop thrilling those you are for!3

What others may perceive as a gamble, leaders understand to be merely a calculated risk. In the face of superior odds, a leader must have the courage to innovate.

Our greatest fear should not be that we won't succeed, but rather that we will succeed at something that doesn't matter.

What separates a leader from the rest is not only his ability to see what needs to be done but his unhesitating execution of it, even while others watch or deliberate.

To succeed without meaning is not to succeed at all.

Happiness is the by-product of doing the right things in life. And the "right things" always involve serving and loving and caring and contributing to others.

Leadership begins and ends with hunger. The hunger of an individual to risk his or her own personal comfort and affluence and attack the status quo is not only the initiation of leadership but also its sustaining force.

Hunger, it should be noted, is different from ambition. Where ambition is largely about self-aggrandizement, hunger is more about service and significance.

You are in command. Your job is so challenging, so complex, so never-ending that most people could never come close to understanding the load you carry. You are thrust into impossible situations with little time and usually even less information upon which to make a decision.

Our failures should not define us, but rather they should refine us.

Success is the product of many components, of which one of the most prominent is focus.

As a kingdom divided against itself cannot stand, so every mind divided among different studies is confused and weakened.

The less talented we are, the more focused we must be.

Certainly, experience is a large ingredient, although unexamined experience provides no advancement. Thirty years of experience at something, if not properly comprehended and applied, could result in no more than the equivalent of one year's experience repeated thirty times.

the experience of others becomes invaluable. It acts as a shortcut to bypass the long and painful process of trial and error. Indeed, all wise leaders learn from others, both contemporary and historical.

What really needs to be learned from other successful leaders is their thought processes, their reasons, their methods of emotional control, their strategies, their abilities in dealing with other people, their subtle touches.

Thirty years of experience at something, if not properly comprehended and applied, could result in no more than the equivalent of one year's experience repeated thirty times.

although unexamined experience provides no advancement. Thirty years of experience at something, if not properly comprehended and applied, could result in no more than the equivalent of one year's experience repeated thirty times.

Orrin Woodward relates this principle to people who claim to have thirty years of work experience, when actually in many cases, they merely have one year of experience thirty times over.

It's the men, and the leadership they follow, who make all the difference.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can."7

Great coaches are necessary to help you think through whether you should think what you think you should think.

Time, used correctly, is among your most potent assets.