- “Only 20 percent of the limiting factors are external to you or to your organization. Only 20 percent are on the outside in the form of competition, markets, governments, or other organizations.” Eat That Frog, Brian Tracy, Page 72
- “…your productivity begins to decline after eight or nine hours of work.” .” Eat That Frog, Brian Tracy, Page 80
- “The chairman of Coca-Cola once said, ‘If every truck, warehouse and bottling plant we own burned to the ground tonight, and if every bottle and can of Coke on store shelves in the world was emptied in the fight to put out the fires, it would not diminish the value of our company by one cent. The value of our company lies in the hearts, minds and intentions of our employees, and in the goodwill we have built with our customers of the years.”Beating the Midas Curse, by Perry L. Cochell and Rodney C. Zeeb, Page 131
- “Dad used to say that hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t run up at all.”Beating the Midas Curse, by Perry L. Cochell and Rodney C. Zeeb, Page 161
- “Over the past decade, Gallup has surveyed more than 10 million people worldwide on the topic of employee engagement (or how positive and productive people are at work), and only one-third “strongly agree” with the statement: “At work, I have the opportunity to do what I do best every day.” And for those who do not get to focus on what they do best—their strengths—the costs are staggering. In a recent poll of more than 1,000 people, among those who “strongly disagreed” or “disagreed” with this “what I do best” statement, not one single person was emotionally engaged on the job. In stark contrast, our studies indicate that people who do have the opportunity to focus on their strengths every day are six times as likely to be engaged in their jobs and more than three times as likely to report having an excellent quality of life in general.”StrengthsFinder 2.0 (Tom Rath) Kindle Location 118-26