Nido R Qubein Quotes - Page 2

It's not enough to create value, you have to interpret the value for your prospects and customers so that they can feel the value emotionally and empirically.

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all you energies on a limited set of targets.

Motivation without mobilization means only frustration.

Training teaches how. Education teaches why.

Teaching people skills without giving them a vision for a better future - a vision based on common values - is only training.

Change brings opportunity.

Some people procrastinate so much that all they can do is run around like firefighters all day - putting out fires that should not have gotten started in the first place.

The power to affect your future lies within your own hands.

People who invariably put themselves first will find that others tend to put them last.

Make a strong and permanent commitment to invest your talents only in pursuits that deserve your best efforts.

To acquire balance means to achieve that happy medium between the minimum and the maximum that represents your optimum. The minimum is the least you can get by with. The maximum is the most you're capable of. The optimum is the amount or degree of anything that is most favorable toward the ends you desire.

Make education a continuing, never-ending process.

Most of us tend to suffer from 'agenda anxiety', the feeling that what we want to say to others is more important than what we think they might want to say to us.

Those who base their lives on the belief that a loving God is acting in their behalf tend to see problems as opportunities for growth.

The trouble with many plans is that they are based on the way things are now. To be successful, your personal plan must focus on what you want, not what you have.

Good leaders must become what they want their followers to become.

People can be unreliable and disloyal; possessions can lose their value; jobs that once stimulated you can become boring. But principles remain steady through it all.

The interesting thing about procrastination is that is has more to do with what we fail to do than with what we do.

Total, unconditional acceptance of yourself is the first step in building a positive self-image.

When the truly great people discover that they have been deceived by the signposts along the road of life, they just shift gears and keep going.

What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to be?

Say exactly what you mean. Enough said.

Goals help you keep in perspective what's really important so you don't spend all of your time doing what seems urgent.

Make a strong commitment to reach your full potential as a human being.

The organization that can't communicate can't change, and the corporation that can't change is dead.