Speaker Quotes

The Visalus Founders are the finest and sharpest young leaders that I have ever met.

When you completely accept this moment, when you no longer argue with what is, the compulsion to think lessens and is replaced by an alert stillness. You are fully conscious, yet the mind is not labeling this moment in any way... It is a shift from identification with form --the thought or the emotion-- to being and recognizing yourself as that which has no form -- spacious awareness.

What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?

I've been told that certain species of fish will grow according to the size of their environment. Put them in a tiny aquarium, and they remain small even at adulthood. Release them into a huge natural body of water, and they grow into their intended size. People are similar. If they live in a harsh and limiting environment, they stay small. But put them someplace that encourages growth, and they will expand to reach their potential.

We don't grow on accident, we grow on purpose.

You can't become a leader in one conference.

The great thing about an attitude is that it's yours and you can change it.

Great leaders understand that the right attitude will set the right atmosphere, which enables the right response from others.

It's very inexpensive to give a compliment.

Saying hello doesn't have an ROI. It's about building relationships.

I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.

Humble people ask for help.

Thinking is hard; that's why so few do it.

Integrity is the most needed to succeed in business.

If you make a mistake, it doesn't mean you're a mistake.

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

Think first. Talk less. Start today.

Character isn't developed when we get what we want. Character is developed when we don't get what we want.

True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises and becomes an essential part of the relationship.

If you want to achieve great things, you need to have a great dream.

Momentum solves 80% of your problems.

What I find them struggling most isn't with one of the twelve [things from daily list]; I find them struggling with what decisions to make.

One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.

Be patient with yourself even when you make mistakes.

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

The more positive you are, the powerful youll be.

Do you value people who won't benefit you or only those who might contribute in some way to your success? Great team players truly value others as people, and they know and relate to what others value.

Not all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they take you over completely, that is to say, when they become "I".

Two words will help you cope when you run low on hope: accept and trust.

You have to know who you are to grow to your potential. But you have to grow in order to know who you are.

Humility is the most beautiful virtue that we can develop.

Success is not what you leave to but what you leave behind

If you are too attached to your own thinking and how everything is done now, then nothing will change for the better.

The first step to leadership is servanthood.

Humans eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. Suddenly, they start cutting reality up into bits and pieces, which is what the thinking mind does.

You're not free, unless you come to the place where you have nothing to prove.

The sheer act of listening speaks volumes that even a great speech can't communicate.

We overestimate the event and underestimate the process. Every fulfilled dream occurred because of dedication to the process.

With awareness there comes choice. And so you are able to say: "I allow this moment to be as it is". And then, suddenly, where before there was irritation, there is now a sense of aliveness and peace. And out of that comes right action.

My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He's my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me.

When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.

Awareness takes over from thinking. Instead of being in charge of your life, thinking becomes the servant of awareness.

We almost always see only what's wrong with other people and not what's wrong with us.

I know of nothing more valuable, when it comes to the all-important virtue of authenticity, than simply being who you are.

The real test of leadership isn't where you start out. It's where you end up.

If you want to be great, you can't be great by yourself. You gotta to bring people around you. As the the challenge escalates, the need for teamwork elevates. The greater the challenge, the better the team.

I am optimistic that humanity is going to make it, that humanity is going to reach, finally, a new state of consciousness which will then create a different kind of world.

If you want to do a few small things right, do them yourself. If you want to do great things and make a big impact, learn to delegate.

Maya Angelou observed you cant use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. Sadly,too often creativity is smothered rather than nurtured. There has to be climate in which new ways of thinking,perceiving, questioning are encouraged.

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

Precious few are those who can live in the lap of luxury ... who can keep their moral, spiritual and financial equilibrium ... while balancing on the elevated tightrope of success. ... there is about one in a hundred who can dance to the tune of success without paying the piper named Compromise.

Creativity requires the willingness to look stupid.

Our attitude is the primary force that will determine whether we succeed or fail.

Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.

I don't know how you can justify leaving any engagement behind in the social Web of 2011.

we need to make a few critical decisions in major areas of life and then manage those decisions day to day.

Others are Ahead of me. I am continually Challenged. My focus is Forward. The atmosphere is Affirming. I am often out of my Comfort Zone. I wake up Excited. Failure is not my Enemy. Others are Growing. People desire Change. Growth is Modeled and Expected.

It is important to realize that a large percentage of what we hear or see on the news focuses on those places where there is violent conflict...It gives us a slightly or very distorted view of what is going on because there are many other parts of the planet where there is no violent conflict, but that is not on the news.

I’m living now in my reward.

Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all.