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The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Stephen Covey

Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, “like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic”.
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Leadership Management
You can’t talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!
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Problem Skill Talk Way
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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Burn Inspirational Motivational Success
Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.
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Courageous Result Thinking
Internal victories precede external victories.
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Success Victory
It’s better to be trusted than to be liked.
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Motivational Trust
It doesn’t really matter how fast you’re going if you’re heading in the wrong direction.
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Direction Inspirational Life Wrong
Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of the solution, not the problem.
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Character Commitment Inspirational Judgement Light Problem
It’s better to be humbled by the word than by the force of circumstances.
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Circumstances Force Humble World
You can’t change the fruit without changing the root.
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Change Deep Yourself
You can buy a person’s hands but you can’t buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.
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Business Heart Loyalty Person Yourself
Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.
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Seek Understand Yourself
Whenever you experience stress of any kind, look into yourself and ask, In what way am I compromising my innermost values in this situation?
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Experience Kind Value Yourself
Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience.
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Best Motivational Patience People Time Trust
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
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Inspirational Perseverance
It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.
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Act Humility Seek Understand Wisdom

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

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