Quotes from Bo Bennett

Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.

While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.

To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.

Success is not in what you have, but who you are.

Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.

If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?

The concept of the 'good ol' days' must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.

An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.

A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.

The best way to lose a job is just not to care. When you do not care, it shows in everything you do.

One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.

Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper.

There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.

A dream collage is pictures of your goals. It is like your future photo album.

Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have.

Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time.

Never expect people to treat you any better than you treat yourself.

In sales, a referral is the key to the door of resistance.

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.

Not being in tune with your customers is like living in an alternate reality; the way you think your customers feel about your product is not always the same as what your customers really think about your product.

Avoiding the phrase 'I don't have time...', will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life.

We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources.

You are not, nor ever will be, better than anyone else besides the person you are now.