David Cottrell
Whether you realize it or not, you have the power to be successful.Collection: Successful
Doing the right thing isn't always easy - in fact, sometimes it's real hard - but just remember that doing the right thing is always right.Collection: Leadership
Change allows us to exit the comfortable and enter the improved.Collection: Exit
Leadership can't be claimed like luggage at the airport. Leadership can't be inherited, even though you may inherit a leadership position. And leadership can't be given as a gift - even if you've been blessed with an abundance of leadership skills to share with someone else. Leadership must be earned by mastering a defined set of skills and by working with others to achieve common goals.Collection: Blessed
If each Monday morning, you make a choice to move into the new work week with renewed commitment and passion, you can change all areas of your life. You can truly change your Mondays and change your life.Collection: Monday
You will never have enough time to do everything you need to do, so what you need is a crystal clear understanding of the important things you have to do.Collection: Leadership
Don't be so busy making a living that you forget how to live. Work hard to be successful, but enjoy the journey.Collection: Hard Work
Your team has entrusted a portion of their life to you, and it's your job to help them grow, personally and professionally.Collection: Leadership
Press on. Your defining moment may arrive just when you feel surrounded by adversity.Collection: Adversity
To fulfill you potential, you need to move out of your comfort zone and into the legacy zone.Collection: Leadership
When you accepted your job, you were not chosen solely to fill a position on the organization chart; you were chosen to fill a responsibility.Collection: Leadership
Until you accept total responsibility - no matter what - you won't be able to put plans in place to accomplish your goals.Collection: Responsibility
If expecting something in return is your reason for giving, you are really not giving- you're swapping. If you receive something in return for your gift, what you receive is a bonus - not a repayment of a debt.Collection: Expecting Something In Return
Positively dealing with the unexpected by looking for solutions, not excuses, is the choice you need to make.Collection: Choices
The worst type of employee you can have is one who has mentally quit and is still physically coming to work every day.Collection: Leadership
Guard your integrity as if it's your most precious leadership possession, because that is what it is.Collection: Leadership
Your job is not to lower the bottom by adjusting for and accommodating the lowest-performing employees. You should be raising the top by recognizing and rewarding superstar behavior.Collection: Leadership
Successful people keep moving, even when they are discouraged and have made mistakes.Collection: Leadership
The single greatest demotivator of a team is having members who are not carrying their load.Collection: Leadership
One of the main things for a leader is to eliminate confusion.Collection: Leadership
I have found success is ultimately realized by people who make more right choices . . . and recover quickly from their bad choices.Collection: Leadership
Our comfort zones can be our greatest enemy to our potential.Collection: Enemy
People quit people before they quit companies.Collection: Leadership
To become a courageous leader, you must realize that accepting responsibility is not optional - it's mandatory.Collection: Inspirational
Enthusiasm is something you can't fake, and it has a tremendous effect on everyone around you.Collection: Leadership
The success of any change depends, in large measure, on your attitude about that change.Collection: Leadership
There is a direct correlation between the books you read and the success you achieve.Collection: Leadership
If you want to be around people who are positive and enthusiastic and eager to live life, your attitude has to be the same.Collection: Leadership
A real leader spends his time fixing the problem instead of finding who to blame.Collection: Leadership
Give away everything you have learned. If for no other reason, do it selfishly; in order to get more, you must give more.Collection: Leadership
You have to escape from management land and get in touch with your people.Collection: Leadership
Success is ultimately realized by people who make more good choices and recover quickly from their bad choices. Our personal and professional success depends on repeating good choices, day in and day out, and avoiding repetition of bad choices.Collection: People
One of the major sources of stress, anxiety, and unhappiness comes from feeling as if your life is out of control.Collection: Leadership
Trusted counselors, mentors and guides make an indelible mark on the lives they touch, and they provide the two ingredients to success in life--caring and sharing--that cannot be learned or purchased.Collection: Caring
If you want to make better use of your time, you need to be looking for the small increments of time ... a minute here, five minutes there, etc.Collection: Leadership
Frequently, the difference between success and failure is the resolve to stick to your plan long enough to win.Collection: Winning
It is rare for people to say they want to be held accountable, but in reality, everyone wants everyone else to be held accountable.Collection: Leadership
Bucket filling is in the eye of the bucket holder, not the bucket filler. Fill their buckets with things that are important to them ... not you.Collection: Leadership
We all need people who will help us look at situations from a different perspective.Collection: Leadership
There are a few things that you can do that will yield better results than doing a whole lot of other things.Collection: Leadership
"To coach" comes from the root meaning "to bring a person from where they are to where they want to be."Collection: Roots
There is no 'grand conspiracy' preventing your from accomplishing what you need to do.Collection: Leadership
The most important thing you do as a leader is to hire the right people.Collection: Leadership
Every successful person has faced, attacked, and conquered adversity somewhere along the way.Collection: Leadership
Don't stifle your career by limiting you knowledge.Collection: Leadership
When you depend on another's perceptions to match your expectations, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.Collection: Leadership
The truth is that problems won't just go away.Collection: Leadership
Leaders who have integrity possess one of the most respected virtues in all of life.Collection: Leadership
So much of life is about attitude and how we handle what life throws our way. Life is good - even when a situation appears to be the worst.Collection: Leadership