Quotes About Growth

As long as you are hanging around amateurs, you will think like an amateur, and you will not improve your skills.

Los líderes con éxito son aprendices. Y el proceso del aprendizaje es un continuo resultado de la autodisciplina y la perseverancia.

To sharpen your talent through practice, you need to do more than just be open to change. You need to pursue change—and you need to do it a little bit more than other achievers.

Leaders are effective because of who they are on the inside—in the qualities that make them up as people. And to go to the highest level of leadership, people have to develop these traits from the inside out.

Retired General Electric CEO Jack Welch said, "Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

leadership expert Max DePree says, "We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

DON'T COUNT LOSSES—INSTEAD, COUNT LESSONS

Don't change just enough to get away from your problems—change enough to solve them.

All lasting growth requires awareness.

Thinking for a Change shares the way that I think on a daily basis. My wife, Margaret, says it has more of my DNA than any of my other books.

Ganar ha sido sobrestimado. Pero crecer es subestimado.

You cannot grow unless you are willing to change. And you will not change unless you change something you do every day.

If you want to break out of your own box, get into somebody's else's. Read broadly.

For a team to succeed, responsibility must go down deep into the organization, down to the roots. Getting that to happen requires a leader who will delegate responsibility and authority to the team. Stephen Covey remarked, "People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work, because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses." Good leaders seldom restrict their teams; they release them.

What's more dangerous than playing big? Never taking a risk.

Any idea gets better when the right people get a chance to add to it and improve it.

Don't see change as something hurtful that must be done—see it as something helpful that can be done.

Don't avoid paying the immediate price of change—if you do, you will pay the ultimate price of never improving.

How does a person become productive? Find your strength and then find someone who needs your strength.

Nunca se enfoque en hacer dinero: enfóquese en hacer personas. 2. Nunca se enfoque en iniciar empresas: enfóquese en iniciar personas. 3. Nunca se enfoque en hacer crecer la producción: enfóquese en hacer crecer a las personas.

Poet and philosopher Johann von Schiller wrote, "He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times." You can do your best only if you are continually seeking to embrace positive change.

Comprendí que ayudar a los demás, ¡me ayudaba a mí!».

Leaders have to grow into their roles, and if the role becomes more demanding, the leader has to keep growing. Leadership is never a right. It's a privilege and a responsibility. But it's one that is open to anyone who's willing to work hard enough to get it.

Progress always requires change.