"Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less...titles..." - Quote by John C Maxwell
Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less...titles don't have much value when it comes to leading. True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned, it comes only from influence, and that cannot be mandated. It must be earned.
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“The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.”
“Reaching the top is a monumental achievement, but remaining there may be the most spectacular feat of all.”
“The truth is that you can spend your life any way you want, but you can spend it only once.”
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“Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule thattyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.”
“My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.”
“You can't motivate a group of people or a Team. You have to motivate people individually, and that motivation has to be in an environment in which that person has a goal - something they want to accomplish in their lives.”
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“There are some pop songs I hate but I can't get them out of my head. Our songs also have the standard pop format: Verse, chorus, verse, chorus, solo, bad solo. All in all, I think we sound like The Knack and the Bay City Rollers being molested by Black Flag and Black Sabbath.”
“The people made me from the littlest crack head to the biggest baller so if i am bad its because of the bay and if i am good its because of the bay”
“Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings.”