OPPORTUNITY & GROWTH


Welcome! This list of quotes is part of the Management & Leadership Quotes series of the Bigroads.com website.

Author/Contributor: Greg Parsons



It is such a good opportunity when you have a weak leader above you.

- Jocko Willink & Leif Babin

The goal of each day must be to get a little better, to build on the previous day’s progress.

- John Maxwell

Taking a risk can be seen as a danger to your career. But an organization that aims to stay alive and strong should make sure to praise and promote risk-takers, even if they fail once in a while.

- Michael Abrashoff

If you look at any successful person, at the start they were not balanced. Balanced people go nowhere. They stay in one spot. To make progress, you must first go unbalanced.

- Robert T Kiyosaki

Lifelong learners take risks. Much more than others, these men and women push themselves out of their comfort zone and try new ideas. While most of us become set in our ways, they keep experimenting.

- John Kotter

If you don’t want to slip, don’t go where it’s slippery.

- Tim Ferriss

Stay closely tuned to everything your competitors are doing, and don’t hesitate to take their best practices and run with them.

- Lee Cockerell

Which do you want, the pain of staying where you are or the pain of growth?

- Judith Hanson Lasater

It is much easier to become great than to remain great.

- Jim Collins

I am certain that those who strive to turn good into great find the process no more painful or exhausting than those who settle for just letting things wallow along in mind-numbing mediocrity.

- Jim Collins

If you get too satisfied with your past achievements, your competitors will gain on you fast.

- Lee Cockerell

A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss.

- John Maxwell

Be a crusader. When you see something that you believe ought to be done, pick up the ball and run.

- David J. Schwartz

Today’s success is the biggest threat to tomorrow’s success.

- John Maxwell

Getting real promotions usually requires a vacancy up the ladder. Your best chance is to succeed your own boss. But she can’t get promoted unless there is someone to replace her. Making her look good improves her promotability, and because you make her look good she will want you to stay around. You are now promotable.

- Jeffrey Fox

The person with technical knowledge plus the ability to express ideas, to assume leadership, and to arouse enthusiasm among people—that person is headed for higher earning power.

- Dale Carnegie

Most people have no idea of the opportunities they are passing up when they don’t learn to lead.

- John Maxwell

Anything done at the level of excellence, or in the pursuit of excellence, is exciting and fun. Anything done at the level of mediocrity is discouraging and a real drag.

- Fred Lee

We need to be extremely selfish a few hours a day and take care of ourselves and our bodies. You can’t help someone else if you are not taking care of yourself.

- Lewis Howes

Help in every way you can, even when there is no direct or immediate compensation or other reward.

- David J. Schwartz

Big picture thinkers are never satisfied with what they already know. They are always visiting new places, reading new books, meeting new people, learning new skills.

- John Maxwell

Nothing inspires like success. There is nothing like becoming excellent at something to meet our basic drive for competence, and feed our deep hunger for meaning and growth.

- Fred Lee

People who are attempting to grow, to become more comfortable with change, to develop leadership skills-these men and woman are typically driven by a sense that they are doing what is right for themselves, their families, and their organization. That sense of purpose spurs them on and inspires them during rough periods.

- John Kotter

Show me someone who has never made a mistake, and I will show you someone who is not doing anything to improve your organization.

- Michael Abrashoff

As we grow older, our parents, teachers, and friends talk more of what we can’t and shouldn’t do than what is possible.

- Chris Voss

The more specialized you become, the more you are trapped and dependent on that specialty.

- Robert T Kiyosaki

Get involved in something that you care so much about that you want to make it the greatest it can possibly be, not because of what you will get, but just because it can be done.

- Jim Collins

Write down all the things you are afraid of.

- Lewis Howes

When you compete against everyone else, no one wants to help you. But when you compete against yourself, everyone wants to help you.

- Simon Sinek

Clear the path for the people above you and you will eventually create a path for yourself.

- Tim Ferriss

Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you’re expecting a reward. Most people do exactly the opposite. They only take action when they expect a reward, and they don’t enjoy the action. And that’s the reason why they don’t do their best.

- Don Miguel Ruiz

Most people just accept their lives, they don’t lead them.

- John Maxwell

If you want your business to thrive in a competitive environment, you need to make sure things are constantly improving, day in and day out.

- Lee Cockerell

The world’s biggest problems are the world’s biggest opportunities.

- Tim Ferriss

Many people hate their failures so much that they quickly cover them up instead of analyzing them and learning from them.

- John Maxwell

Successful businesses tend, because of internal complacency or external challenges or both, to drift toward trouble in the long-run.

- Michael Watkins

Just do your best-in any circumstance in your life. It doesn’t matter if you are sick or tired, if you always do your best there is no way you can judge yourself. And if you don’t judge yourself there is no way you are going to suffer from guilt, blame, and self-punishment. By always doing your best, you will break a big spell that you have been under.

- Don Miguel Ruiz

Stay closely tuned to everything your competitors are doing, and don’t hesitate to take their best practices and run with them.

- Lee Cockerell

As we get better at anything, we love it more.

- Fred Lee

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs, tasks, or steps.

- John Maxwell

Human happiness is pursuing meaningful life goals, scanning the world for opportunities, cultivating an optimistic and grateful mindset, and holding on to rich social relationships.

- Shawn Achor

Crisis is another name for opportunity.

- Cy Charney

Every person who has achieved any success in life has made sacrifices to do so.

- John Maxwell

Persons with mediocre accomplishments are quick to explain why they haven’t, why they don’t, why they can’t, and why they aren’t.

- David J. Schwartz

Getting started is always the hardest part of doing anything new. You have to overcome all those fears and anxieties of saying the wrong thing or looking foolish.

- Lewis Howes

Most people want their lives to keep improving, yet they value peace and stability at the same time.

- John Maxwell

One goes ahead, stands still, or goes backward in life.

- Napoleon Hill

Vacations are an occasion to observe other ways of life, new fashions and trends, different ways business is done, and literally to broaden your horizons.

- John Maxwell

Find out what nobody else wants to do and do it.

- Tim Ferriss

Common habits of the wealthy:

(a) Maintain a to-do list;
(b) Listen to audiobooks during your commute;
(c) Network 5+ hours per month;
(d) Read 30+ minutes per day;
(e) Exercise at least 4-5 days per week;
(f) Eat minimal junk food;
(g) Watch one hour of TV per day, or less;
(h) Make your children volunteer;
(i) Write down your goals;
(j) Believe in lifelong educational self-improvement;
(k) Believe that good habits create opportunities;
(l) Believe that bad habits have a negative impact;
(m) Express gratitude throughout the day; and
(n) Constantly learn new information and skills.


- Lewis Howes

An important part of the champions' mindset is the pursuit of perfection and excellence.

- unknown

Walk away from the 90% of who aren't fully engaged in their work and join the 10% who are.

- unknown

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

- Tony Robbins