Category: Quotes
The Value of Small Wins (or, How to Eat an Elephant)
So, what exactly are small wins, and why do they seem to add up as well as they do? As solutions professionals, we are ideally suited to make a difference when we help our businesses make those incremental changes which, over time, add up to significant wins and success in the marketplace. This post will include citations from sources I’ve come across while studying the topic of small wins on my own.
Steve Jobs – Do great work; love what you do
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do – Steve Jobs (1955 – 2011) Stanford Commencement Address, 2005 Also… Steve [...]
Quoteworthy: Brooks on the Proper Criterion for Success
If we perceive our role aright, we then see more clearly the proper criterion for success: a toolmaker succeeds as, and only as, the users of his tools succeed with his aid. However shining the blade, however jeweled the hilt, however perfect the heft, a sword is tested only by cutting. – Fred Brooks
Quote: Are you passionate about what you do?
One of the things that may get in the way of people being lifelong learners is that they’re not in touch with their passion. If you’re passionate about what it is you do, then you’re going to be looking for everything you can to get better at it. – Jack Canfield
Quoteworthy: Chinese Proverb – Involve me and I'll understand
Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand. – Chinese Proverb
Quoteworthy: Cicero – Be Brief
When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men’s minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
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