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"All the perks, all the benefits and advantages you may get for the rank or position you hold, they aren’t meant for you. They are meant for the role you fill. And when you leave your role, which eventually you will, they will give the ceramic cup to the person who replaces you. Because you only ever deserved a Styrofoam cup."
"We can teach only if we are willing to learn."
"A leader without a title is better than a title without the ability to lead."
"There is a difference between offering a service and being willing to serve. They may both include giving but only one is generous."
"It doesn't matter how much we know, it matters how clearly others can understand what we know."
"A movement only exists when people are inspired to move, to do something, to make the cause their own."
"Our reputations do not come from how we talk about ourselves. Our reputations come from how others talk about us."
"Poor leaders push us towards the goal. Great leaders guide us through the journey."
"Great leaders give everyone something to believe in, not something to do."
"Curiosity is essential for progress. Only when we look to worlds beyond our own can we really know if there's room for improvement."
"Dr. King gave the "I have a dream" speech, not the "I have a plan" speech."
"You'll never see the president carry his own luggage, and why? Because even though we know he has luggage, it would reduce his stature if he was too much like us. We need to think of our leaders as being above us, even though they must still relate to us."
"Work requires effort. Things we love to do feel effortless. Only do the things you love and you'll never have to work again."
"The concept of why is already in the vernacular. It is now a noun. "That company doesn't know their why." "They need to learn their why." "That politician needs to understand his why." We talk about it as a noun. That never existed prior to 2009. That never existed prior to 2006 when I first started articulating it. This is the most amazing thing to me. It has now become a concept. It's part of the way we think about businesses and transactions and decisions."
"The creatives are rarely professional and the professionals are rarely creative."
"A leader must be inspired by the people before a leader can inspire the people."
"There are two types of claims: those based on hard numbers and those based on slippery numbers."
"Employees represent an opportunity to inspire not a burden to carry."
"The next time someone starts listing all the reasons an idea won't work or can't happen, ask them to give 3 reasons it can."
"I have been inspired by Martin Luther King and how he inspired a movement. I have learned that a cause must be organic; if it is to have an impact it must belong to those who join the movement and not those who lead it."