Self Management Quotes

Most leaders don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop.

I talk about my daily dozen in the book [ Today Matters]. Twelve things that are certainly attainable by any of us that we need to manage every day.

It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.

Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

The one thing you can do for others is the manage your own life. And do it with conviction.

You must manage yourself before you can lead someone else.

The need to manage oneself is creating a revolution in human affairs.

I no longer think that learning how to manage people, especially subordinates, is the most important for executives to learn. I am teaching above all else, how to manage oneself.

In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important event historians will see is not technology, not the Internet, not e-commerce. It is an unprecedented change in the human condition. For the first time - literally - substantial and rapidly growing numbers of people have choices. For the first time, they will have to manage themselves. And society is totally unprepared for it.

I try never to get too high when things are going well. I try never to get too low when things are going poorly. I try to keep an even keel.