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" I'd done all the things I thought a person had to do in order to be successful and fulfilled, like getting a great education and becoming a lawyer, and yet there was zero spark in my life. But there was no light-bulb moment. It was gradual. In the early 1990s, I decided to experiment and try some new ways of living. "

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" You can't do the finest work of your career staying in your city. "

" Anyone can show exceptional leadership ability in easy times. When all's going to plan, anyone can be inspirational/excellent/innovative and strong. The real question is how do you show up when everything's falling apart? "

" The best of the best understand that people do business with people they like. People do business with people they trust, and people do business with those who make them feel special. "

" Victims recite problems. Leaders develop solutions. That might seem like common sense, but common sense is rarely common practice. "

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" While their competition is asleep, world-class leaders are up - and they're not watching the news or reading the paper. They are thinking, planning and practicing. "

" One of the fastest ways to find the solution to an issue or challenge you are facing is to ask the right questions. "

" Questions matter. In business, remarkable performers are brilliant at getting to the right question: the one that speeds them to the place they need to get to and offers them the missing piece they need to find. "

" You cannot lead others until you have first learned to lead yourself. "

" It's so easy to get caught up in the thick of thin things. So seductive to spend your finest hours climbing mountains that, at the end, turn out to be the wrong ones. "

" The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods. "

" No one wants to fail. So most of us don't even try. Sad. We don't even take that first step to improve our health or to deepen our working relationships or to realize a dream. "

" Most people in business and within their personal lives move towards complexity. More To Dos. More projects. More products. More meetings. More possessions. More goals. The best - I suggest to you - move in the opposite direction. "

" By seizing the opportunities that disruption presents and leveraging hard times into greater success through outworking/outinnovating/outthinking and outworking everyone around you, this just might be the richest time of your life so far. "

" Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title. "

" Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done. "

" Difficult times disrupt your conventional ways of thinking and push you to forge better habits of thought, performance and being. "

" One of the core organizing principles of my life is that success comes through a delicate balance between making things happen and letting things happen. "

" You can stay angry at someone who hurt you. Or you can get busy doing your visions and changing our world. But you don't get to do both. "

" If we are paying attention to our lives, we'll recognise those defining moments. The challenge for so many of us is that we are so deep into daily distractions and 'being busy, busy' that we miss out on those moments and opportunities that - if jumped on - would get our careers and personal lives to a whole new level of wow. "

" Everyone is influencing the people around them one way or another. "

" You need to give to get. Give support to get it. Give praise to receive it. Give your best to get your wishes. Give more love to be beloved. Give to get. "

" Please remember that as you become a more extraordinary human being, every element of your outer world must change accordingly. Just has to. So the more remarkable you become, the more remarkable will be the professional and personal life you'll create. "

" We live in a world where many of us have a lot of friends on Facebook but yet we have lost human connection. "

" Here's the thing: When you become brilliant at listening, people feel that you care about them. When they feel you care about them, they begin to care about you. And when people care about you, your success becomes a part of how they define their success. "

" Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers. "

" Listening is a master skill for personal and professional greatness. "

" So many amongst us live in the past rather than loving the present and building a brilliant future. Some people stay stuck for years over something they did or a failure they've experienced. Sad. A life is a terrible thing to waste. "

" Stay true to your vision/dream. There's something to be said for just staying at what you are trying to achieve well past the point everyone else gives up. "

" Epic production has less to do with your willpower and more to do with the routines you install. Get those right, and you'll enjoy exponential results automatically. "

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