Quotes About Growth

You don't say how slim the odds are but rather how you can improve the odds.

List the names of the members of your team. Next to each person's name, write a sentence or phrase that describes that person's perspective or outlook. The sentence must be positive, giving the person the benefit of the doubt for how he or she sees the world. If you're having difficulty describing someone's perspective, you need to get to know him or her better so that you can articulate the person's point of view.

Successful people focus their thinking on progress

El problema que tienen la mayoría de las personas es que quieren que las cosas sigan siendo iguales y al mismo tiempo que mejoren. Obviamente, eso no es posible. Si verdaderamente quiere crecer, comprométase no sólo a aceptar el cambio, sino a buscarlo.

When some people begin to work with others on their development, they often gravitate to weaknesses rather than strengths. Maybe that's because it's so easy to see others' problems and shortcomings. But if you start by putting your energies into correcting people's weaknesses, you will demoralize them and unintentionally sabotage the enlarging process.

The very moment that you make the shift to finding your purpose, growing to your potential, and helping others, successful is something you are right now, not something you vaguely hope one day to be.

A TABLE: FEW TO MANY—IT ENABLES GROWTH The birth of transformation starts in the heart of an individual, and the growth of the movement happens around a table. Mass movements don't begin with the masses. They begin with a few people. When people can sit around the table together as equal contributors, everyone wins.

Only when you make the right changes to your thinking do other things begin to turn out right.

Todos tenemos el potencial de vivir más allá de lo mediocre.

You will never get to the point that you no longer make mistakes, that you no longer fail. But that's okay.

It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others' successes.

as the Chinese proverb asserts, "Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still." —

In 1997,I wrote a book called The Success Journey. It offers an overview on what it means to be successful. In it I define success in these terms: Knowing your purpose in life Growing to reach your potential Sowing seeds that benefit others

Josie Bisset afirmó: «Los sueños vienen en tallas grandes para que podamos crecer en ellos».

make the most of the difficult situation of working for a bad boss, learn to think like a leader yourself. Think people, think progress, and think intangibles.

People who blame others for their failures never overcome them. They simply move from problem to problem.

The price of success is failure.

People approach any task with one of two mindsets: what I call the "Be-Good" mindset, where your focus is on proving that you have a lot of ability and already know what you're doing, and the "Get-Better" mindset, where your focus is on developing ability. You can think of it as the difference between wanting to prove that you are smart, and wanting to get smarter.

Aquello que persistimos en hacer se vuelve más fácil de realizar, no porque la naturaleza de la tarea en sí haya cambiado, sino porque ha aumentado nuestro potencial para realizarla».

William A. Hewitt, Chairman of Deere and Company, says, "To be a leader you must preserve all through your life the attitude of being receptive to new ideas. The quality of leadership you will give will depend upon your ability to evaluate new ideas, to separate change for the sake of change from change for the sake of me.

Work Through Your Insecurities:

Don't ever be too impressed with goal setting; be impressed with goal getting. Reaching new goals and moving to a higher level of performance always requires change, and change feels awkward. But, take comfort in the knowledge that if a change doesn't feel uncomfortable, then it's probably not really a change.

Goethe recommended, "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.

Recruit the Best People You Can to Develop: